As expected, Sony’s consolidated results for the first quarter of the fiscal year (ending March 31,2011) show the company has made a considerable profit.
The announcement (available here as a PDF and sourced via GAF) shows an operating income of $753 million with a net income of $289 million.
Worldwide unit sales show that the PS3 shifted 2.4 million units this quarter, compared with 1.1 last year. The PSP was down, though, moving 1.2 million units compared with 1.3 last year, with the PS2 remaining the same at 1.6 million units.
In terms of software, the figures are encouraging: the PS3’s game sales are up from 14.8 million to 24.8 million units, the PSP’s up from 8.3 to 9.2 million units. As you’d expect, the PS2’s game sales are down, from 8.5 million units to 3.4 million.
This puts the total number of PS3s sold at 38.1 million (just 3 million or so behind the Xbox 360 now) with 15 million forecasted by Sony for 2010. Total game sales are at 315.3 million units.
spekjemean
Well done Sony. Blu-ray and 3D is the Future
DVD is So VHS !
Please please please don’t give them the rights to Blu-ray or 3D. They can keep their X-game-chat LOL
Makes sense tho. No Blu-ray or 3D no next gen console :)
Raider197
Sony can’t do anything to stop MS using 3D or Blu-Ray, since they own neither.
STILLCANTTHINKOFAGOODPSNNAME
that’s a terrible idea DVD has crippled this generation of games so you can fuck right off if you think doing the same again next gen is a good idea