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News May 10, 2023

Console sales increased in Russia in the first quarter

In the first quarter, Russians bought game consoles much more actively than in January-March 2022. According to retailers’ estimates, demand has doubled over the year.

News April 28, 2023

Sony sold 6.3 million PS5S in the last quarter — three times more than a year ago

Sony has released a report for fiscal year 2022, which ended on March 31, 2023. We tell you how this period passed for the gaming division of the company.

News April 26, 2023

Russia has entered the top 3 countries by the number of users on Steam

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.

News March 13, 2023

Sony expects to sell at least 60 million PS5 consoles

Sony‘s CFO believes that the PS5 will sell over 60 million devices over the entire life cycle of the console. Hiroki Totoki told about this at the Morgan Stanley conference.

News February 14, 2023

In Europe, January PS5 sales more than tripled compared to last year

It seems that Sony has solved the problem with the shortage of its consoles in the European market. According to journalist Christopher Dring, in January 2023, PS5 sales in Europe immediately increased by 202% year-on-year.

News February 6, 2023

Sony closes office in Turkey

Last week, Turkish media reported that Sony had decided to close its office in Istanbul. On February 6, the company confirmed the rumors in a comment for the portal GamesIndustry.biz .

News February 2, 2023

7.1 million PS5 consoles and revenue growth — the main thing from Sony’s quarterly report

Sony has published another financial report today. In it, the company disclosed the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2022.

News November 23, 2022

The launch of God of War Ragnarök is the most successful in the history of PlayStation

In the first five days of sales, God of War Ragnarök sold 5.1 million copies.

News October 13, 2022

PS5 became the fourth fastest selling console in the UK market

British sales of the PS5 have surpassed the milestone of 2 million copies, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data. It took 98 weeks for the console to do this.

News October 11, 2022

According to rumors, Sony plans to ship 30.5 million PS5 for the 2023 fiscal year

Journalist Tom Henderson, citing his sources, said that the company expects to sell 18 million consoles in fiscal 2022. This means that according to Sony‘s plan, PS5 shipments will grow by 70% in 2023.

News October 11, 2022

Analyst: PS5 shipments to the US increased by 400% year-on-year in September

Such data was shared by David Gibson from MST Financial. According to him, in September Sony shipped about 7.5 thousand tons of consoles to the United States.

News October 4, 2022

Sony doesn’t mind investing more in mobile, PC and game services

Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, shared the company’s plans in an interview with Reuters. He did not go into details and did not say what specific projects Sony might invest in.

News September 8, 2022

PlayStation was the most monetary platform for Activision Blizzard in 2020

Two years ago, the Sony platform was responsible for 17% of Activision Blizzard‘s net revenue, or approximately $1.37 billion. This is reported by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

News August 25, 2022

Analyst: the rise in price of the PS5 will practically not affect console sales

Sony has announced an increase in prices for the PS5 in most regions. The company did not delve into the reasons and explained everything by the “global economic situation”.

News August 10, 2022

Daniel Ahmad: PS4 is the fourth best—selling console in the world

By March 2022, PS4 sales reached 117.2 million devices. According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, the circulation of this console is unlikely to grow much, since Sony no longer talks about fresh PS4 sales in its reports.

News August 10, 2022

Sony may start buying mobile studios. This is hinted at by one of the vacancies of the company

The PlayStation mobile division is looking for a senior business development director. According to the text of the vacancy, the new person, among other things, will have to look for companies that will then become part of Sony or become its partners.

News July 29, 2022

Sony has released a quarterly report. The profit of its gaming division fell by 37%

The first quarter of fiscal 2022 was not very smooth for PlayStation. According to a recent report, the operating profit of Sony‘s gaming division decreased to $397 million (-37%), and sales — to $4.54 billion (-2%).

News July 27, 2022

Sony has launched a new program for indie developers – Development Hardware Loan Program

Indie developers will start receiving free PS5 devkits. Sony hopes that thanks to the new program, it will be able to improve the publishing process and lower the entry threshold on the PlayStation.

News June 24, 2022

Xbox has twice overtaken PlayStation in weekly sales in the Japanese market

Xbox consoles managed to beat PlayStation for weekly sales in Japan for the second time in a month and a half. According to Famitsu, last week the Japanese bought 6695 copies of the Xbox Series and 3035 copies of the PlayStation 5.

News May 19, 2022

For the first time in eight years, Xbox overtook PlayStation in weekly sales in Japan

According to the Game Data Library, this has happened only 10 times in the entire history of the Japanese market. According to his calculations, 6,225 Xbox Series consoles and 2,693 PlayStation 5 consoles were sold in the country last week.

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Console sales increased in Russia in the first quarter

Sony sold 6.3 million PS5S in the last quarter — three times more than a year ago

Russia has entered the top 3 countries by the number of users on Steam

Sony expects to sell at least 60 million PS5 consoles

In Europe, January PS5 sales more than tripled compared to last year

Sony closes office in Turkey

7.1 million PS5 consoles and revenue growth — the main thing from Sony’s quarterly report

The launch of God of War Ragnarök is the most successful in the history of PlayStation

PS5 became the fourth fastest selling console in the UK market

According to rumors, Sony plans to ship 30.5 million PS5 for the 2023 fiscal year

Analyst: PS5 shipments to the US increased by 400% year-on-year in September

Sony doesn’t mind investing more in mobile, PC and game services

PlayStation was the most monetary platform for Activision Blizzard in 2020

Analyst: the rise in price of the PS5 will practically not affect console sales

Daniel Ahmad: PS4 is the fourth best—selling console in the world

Sony may start buying mobile studios. This is hinted at by one of the vacancies of the company

Sony has released a quarterly report. The profit of its gaming division fell by 37%

Sony has launched a new program for indie developers – Development Hardware Loan Program

Xbox has twice overtaken PlayStation in weekly sales in the Japanese market

For the first time in eight years, Xbox overtook PlayStation in weekly sales in Japan