Sony held a presentation for investors, where it talked about the business of the company’s gaming division. We have chosen the main thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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%).

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.