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.

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.

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.

The last two weeks in the United States have been hotly discussing the possible abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. Jim Ryan, the head of Sony’s gaming division, did not stand aside either.

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.

This decision was made today by the teams of Broken Bird Games, Gatera Studio, Moonatic Studios and Tapioca Games. The developers did not explain the reasons in detail, but, apparently, they could not agree with the organizers of the PlayStation Talents Games Camp.

Sony continues to develop its mobile games division. The company has appointed former Zynga product manager Olivier Courtemanche as Director of Mobile Products. And she gave the position of senior director to Kabam veteran Chris Davis.