Sony's home console continues to sell at a good pace, but reduces its sales forecast for the current year. PS Plus also grows.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released the results of its latest financial report for the 2019-20 fiscal year ended March 31 this Wednesday and has updated the accumulated sales of PS4, which now totals 110.4 million units worldwide. The Japanese company has ratified, in turn, the commitment to launch PlayStation 5 this year 2020.
PS4 is nearing the end of its life cycle: makes way for the arrival of PS5
According to the document, of which Sony makes a positive balance despite the sensitive impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) both on the workflow and on the balance of income received, PS4 has managed to sell a total of 13.6 million units last year (April 2019 to March 31, 2020), a figure ostensibly less than that of the immediately previous year, when they exceeded 17 million units shipped.
Unlike the usual trend, this time they have not offered a specific or approximate forecast of units for PS4 in the 2020/21 exercise, although it is expected to be lower.
PS4 Pro, advanced model of the PlayStation 4 family of consoles released in 2016.
Services: PS Plus already has 41.5 million subscribers
The digital business continues to be one of the main sources of income for the PlayStation department at Sony. The data reflects a total of 41.5 million subscribers in PS Plus until last March 31, a considerable growth compared to March 2019, when a total of 36.4 million faithful to the membership service was encrypted.
For the first time in the last ten years, Sony has reported a lower net profit from the digital market than last year, this time with 1,347 million yen (about 1,256 million dollars) under the impact of COVID-19. In any case, with these results Sony has reported more income from the digital market (51%) than from any other area of the business, a trend that we have already seen for five years. The physical market reports 6%, while hardware (consoles) 19%. The other great pillar of the company are services, where both PS Plus and PS Now compute with 17% combined.
