PS5 distributed, games sold, PlayStation Plus subscriptions, Sony gives all numbers

Sony Corp has just disseminated financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2021. Its video game branch being one of its main engines, the numbers come from PlayStation logically occupy an important place in the documents. According to the Japanese manufacturer, 10.1 million PS5 have been distributed around the world since the launch of the console last November. Of this total, 2.3 million consoles were distributed during this quarter.

In parallel with these ps5 sales, Sony continued to distribute PS4. During this quarter, the Nippon Group distributed 500.000 ps4, which places the total of PS4 distributed at 116.4 million (the PS4 comes to place at the second position behind the PS2). In general, the revenues generated by the Hardware increased by 116.9% compared to the same period last year. Of course, this explosion is caused by the strong demand for PS5.

Software level, 63.6 million games were sold during the last quarter on PS4 and PS5. This corresponds to a decline compared to the 91.4 million games sold just on PS4 at the same period a year ago. Among these games, 71% were dematerialized and $ 10.5 million were Sony First Party titles. These same statistics were 74% and 18.8 million a year ago respectively. These decreases can partly be explained by the high demand for video games caused by the social distancing measures of the first months of the pandemic of COVID -19 a year ago.

Thank you video games

History of scoring spirits, ** Sony, still explains that in the last quarter, more than 8.09 PS4 and PS5 games sold every second around the world. And according to the Japanese group, 5.74 of these games were dematerialized games sold on the PlayStation Store. Which means on average, 699,000 PS4-PS5 games were sold daily during this first quarter (496,000 of these games were dematerialized).

On the PlayStation Network side, Sony reveals having 46.3 million subscribers at PlayStation Plus. This total is up to an increase of 1.3 million subscribers compared to the first quarter of the fiscal year 2020. For monthly users of the PlayStation Network, Sony counts 104 million. This corresponds to a decrease of 10 million users compared to the same period a year ago. According to Sony, it is not a question of a downward trend, but of a Consequence of the decrease in the number of persons confined to them. The Nippon giant states, however, that he will continue to monitor the situation closely.

In general, this first quarter of the fiscal year 2021 gives enough to rejoice in Sony and PlayStation. Indeed, It corresponds to the most important revenues for a first quarter of the playstation history and the second largest recipes in the playstation history for a quarter not including the end-of-year holidays. On the benefits side, this quarter carried out the third best results in the playstation history in the first quarter.

PLAYSTATION remains a motor for Sony Corp. Its video game branch is responsible for 27.3% of its revenue and 29.7% of its benefits over the same period. Even though these two percentages have declined significantly compared to what they were a year ago at the same time, Playstation remains number 1 at Sony Corp in these two categories. In addition, Sony's overall results give the Sony. group of rejoicing. Indeed, various branches of the multinational, like music or cinema, have improved their numbers. The time is clearly not the worry of Sony's tokyo siege side.

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