The operating profit of Sony’s gaming division in the first quarter of this year amounted to $160 million, which is 59.7% lower than in the same period of 2016. At the same time, sales increased by 5.6% to $3.15 billion.

Versus Evil publisher refused to port a strategic game The Banner Saga for the PS Vita portable console after two years of development.

Psyonix studio employees said that every day they ask Sony to allow owners of the PlayStation version of the Rocket League auto-action to play with users of other platforms.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has reported 60.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles sold.

Sales of the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset exceeded 1 million sets, according to Reuters, citing the head of the Japanese branch of the company.

Sony has introduced The Creators initiative, in which well-known game developers recommend games to PlayStation Network (PSN) users.

Sony is disappointed with the sales of PlayStation VR (PSVR) virtual reality systems and has thought about alternative markets for the technology — such as local gaming halls.

Consoles, games and services of the Japanese corporation Sony occupied 57% of the console segment of the world market. Gamers spent $19.7 billion on them.

Gaming companies in February spent on airtime in In the United States, $73.6 million, $5.4 million of them fell on the authors of World of Tanks.

Sony has announced the release of Playstation 4 games in the Playstation Now cloud gaming service. Gamers will be able to pay for a subscription and play on their console or PC.

Sony has sold 915 thousand Playstation VR kits since the start of sales in October last year and has come close to fulfilling its own plan of 1 million devices sold within six months.

Sony has published the tops of the most downloaded and sold games on PlayStation consoles for January. ARK: Survivor’s Pack from Studio Wildcard was in the greatest demand last month.

Sony will release Project Field, an interactive whiteboard for board card games. The device is designed to “change the approach to card games.”

As part of the PlayStation Meeting 2016, Sony introduced two new PlayStation family consoles.

Wargaming and Sony have announced a collaboration. In the game World of Tanks Blitz, tanks from Valkyria Chronicles will appear.

Sony is planning an active offensive on the mobile games market. Going to do projects with AR. This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times resource Kaz Hirai, CEO of the company.

The culture of portable gaming is unhealthy because of the huge popularity of mobile games,” said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios.

The Japanese corporation Sony has announced the launch of the crowdfunding platform First Flight. The goal of the project is to promote new business ideas of the company’s employees.

The PlayStation Mobile (PSM) store will close on July 5 of this year. This is reported in the official Playstation community blog.