Sony announced the results of the second quarter of fiscal 2023 (July-September 2023). Below is a brief summary of the success of the gaming division.

The fact that the Sony-owned Bungie game studio will be affected by a wave of layoffs was reported by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

At the beginning of the week, the creator of the God of War series, David Jaffe, citing sources, said that Connie Booth, one of the iconic figures of the gaming division, had left Sony. Now a Sony representative in a comment to Axios confirmed that Booth no longer works for the company.

Connie Booth, vice president of game development, has left Sony. So say the sources of the creator of the God of War series David Jaffe (David Jaffe).

The updated PS5 line will be 30% smaller than the current one, but the new consoles in it do not bear the name Slim.

Gaming expert Simon Carless once again examined the documents used in the court between Microsoft and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He found a report on a meeting of the almost former head of PlayStation, Jim Ryan, with managers of the Fidelity Investments investment corporation in 2022. It discussed the PlayStation strategy and its plans to create game services.

Jim Ryan, who heads Sony’s gaming division, has decided to leave the company. His last working day will be March 31, 2024.

On August 30, Sony announced that it would raise the cost of an annual PlayStation Plus subscription by a third in September. Investors took this decision well: at Friday’s trading, the company’s stock price rose by 3.4%.

Sony has published a financial report for April-June 2023. We tell you how the quarter went for the gaming division of the company.

At the end of July, Sony for the first time lowered the prices of the PlayStation 5 in a number of countries, including the UK. According to GfK, because of this, weekly console sales in the British market increased by 75% in units and by 63% in monetary terms.

Sony has updated PlayStation 5 sales data. She said she has sold 40 million consoles to date.

On July 26, the PC version of Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart was released. According to the SteamDB service, on the premiere day, the peak online games on Steam amounted to 8,757 people. This is one of the worst indicators among games developed by Sony‘s internal studios.

Nikkei Asia reports that Sony Corporation has planned to increase annual spending on video games under the R&D article to ¥300 billion ($2.16 billion). This is more than she will spend in the same period on the development of electronics and semiconductors.

At the end of 2019, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, suggested that Microsoft increase annual spending on the purchase of games for Game Pass to $2-3 billion. In his opinion, this would help to take Sony out of the game subscription business, since in a few years there would be a shortage of valuable content on the market.

PlayStation may stop working closely with Activision Blizzard. In testimony to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the head of Sony‘s gaming division said that it would not transfer PS6 data to the company in case of successful completion of the deal with Microsoft.

American gamers who are suing Microsoft over a deal with Activision Blizzard have found “indisputable proof” of Microsoft’s plans to oust the PlayStation from the market. They believe that this is why the corporation buys Activision Blizzard.

Nicola Sebastiani, who headed PlayStation Studios Mobile for the last two years, quit Sony.

At the end of May, Sony announced that its gaming division is going to work more actively with cloud services. Kenichiro Yoshida, the head of the company, told the Financial Times in an interview that, despite such plans, PlayStation still considers cloud technologies “very complex”.

The Romanian antimonopoly regulator suspects that Sony has abused its position in the country’s console market. He launched an investigation into the company.