Sony Sony FY2020: PS5: 7.8m LTD (fastest selling console launch-aligned / PS4: 5.8m (115.9m LTD) / Best Year ever for PS / PS4 sold more games than any console in history / $3.23B Profits (+43.5% YoY) / 330m+ games sold / huge investments in first party

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ArmGunar on Reset does a wonderful job breaking everything down.

 

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/20q4_sonypre.pdf

 

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/20q4_supplement.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Sony Revenue : ¥8999.4bn / $84.82B (+9.0% YoY from ¥8259.9bn / $75.99B - FY2019)
Sony Operating Profit : ¥971.9bn / $9.16B (+15.0% YoY from ¥845.5bn / $7.78B - FY2019)
Sony Net Profit : ¥1171.8bn / $11.04B (+101.3% YoY from ¥582.2bn / $5.36B - FY2019)

• Best Revenue ever for Sony
• Best Operating Profit ever for Sony
• Best Net Profit ever for Sony
  • First time, Net Profit crossed ¥1 trillion / $10 billion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major records broken / milestones reached this quarter or fiscal year by PlayStation :

• PlayStation reached an all-time high of 25.04B Revenue during FY2020 and set a new record for the industry
  • Previous record was Sony FY18 with $20.84B Revenue
  • The second time PlayStation broke the $20B barrier
  • Only PlayStation ever generated more than $18.5B Revenue during a fiscal year, let alone $20B
• PlayStation reached an all-time high of $6.24B Revenue during Q4, a new record for the industry
  • Previous biggest Q4 Revenue was Sony Q4 FY18 with ¥498.1bn (= $4.52B)
  • A jump by +32.6% from previous biggest Q4 Revenue
  • First time, any platform holder ever reached $5 Billion and $6 Billion Revenue during Jan-March
  • Biggest Revenue ever for PlayStation (and for any platform holder) during a non-Holiday quarter (non-Q3)
• PlayStation generated $3.23B Profits in FY20, a new record for them (despite the launch of a new hardware)
  • First time, they broke the $3B barrier
  • Previous most profitable year was FY18 with $2.81B Profits
• PlayStation 5 sold-in 3.3m units (LTD: 7.8m) and is now the most sold console during its first fiscal year
  • Beating PS4's 7.6m units in its launch fiscal year, previous record holder
• PlayStation 4 is now the console which has sold the most games in video game history, with at least 1.577B games sold
  • Surpassing PS2's 1.537B games sold, previous record holder
• PlayStation Platforms sold more than 338.9m games in FY20, the highest yearly software sales in PlayStation ecosystem
  • Previous record was FY18 with 287.9m games sold
• PlayStation Network reached an all-time high of $17.32B Revenue in FY20 (+36.4% YoY)
  • Previous record was $12.88B Revenue in FY18
• PlayStation Network reached an all-time high of $4.04B Revenue in Q4 FY20 (Jan-Mar 2021) ; +23.7% YoY
  • Previous Q4 record was $3.27B Revenue in Q4 FY18 (Jan-Mar 2019)
• PlayStation Software & Services reached an all-time high of $18.62B Revenue in FY20 (+34.9% YoY)
  • Previous record was $14.61B Revenue in FY18
• PlayStation Software & Services reached an all-time high of $4.19B Revenue in Q4 FY20 (Jan-Mar) ; +21.0% YoY
  • Previous Q4 record was $3.57B Revenue in Q4 FY18 (Jan-Mar 2019)

 

• Hardware :
  • PS5 : 3.3m in Q4 FY20 / LTD: 7.8m
    • Biggest console launch in video game history, surpassing PS4's 4.5m units
  • PS4 : 1.0m in Q4 FY20 / 5.8m in FY20 / LTD: 115.9m
• Software :
  • PS4/PS5 (FY20) : 338.9m games sold
    • including 58.4m Sony-published games (vs 49.2m - FY19)
      • 17.2% of total games sold this FY20 (vs 17.8% - FY19)
  • PS4/PS5 (Q4 FY20) : 61.4m games sold
    • including 7.9m Sony-published games (vs 9.2m - Q4 FY19)
      • 12.9% of total games sold this FY20 (vs 14.1% - Q4 FY19)
  • Software digital ratio : 79% in Q4

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Sony Aims to “Aggressively Invest” in First-Party Studios & Continue to Partner With External Developers

TWINFINITE.NET

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During Sony’s quarterly conference call CFO Hiroki Totoki talked about the forecast for the current fiscal year ending on March 2022.

 

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To enhance the software offering, Sony aims to continue investing in partnering with external studios in addition to “aggressively investing” in in-house studios. An example mentioned of said partnerships is the one with Jade Raymond’s studio Haven Entertainment.

 

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More info from Zhuge on their mobile revenue and breaking the cyclical profit/loss nature of the console business: