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http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82575/sony-profits-ships-35m-ps3s-in-september-10-quarter/
Sony's financial results for the quarter ending September 2010 have just arrived. Revenues at Sony reached 1.733 trillion Yen, or $20.881 billion for three months ending September 2010. Profit from that revenue reached 31.1b Yen, or $375 million, essentially for every $100 Sony earned, $1.70 ended up as profit. Sony says it was damaged, as Nintendo and other Japanese companies are by the strong Yen but was able to rebound on the Networked Products & Services division (which houses the Playstation products, Vaio PCs and other devices). In the previous September quarter, Sony had revenues (using current Yen rates) 4% less than in the current year, and the company lost over $300 million (again at current Yen rates).
Sony's Networked Products & Services division swung to operating income of 6.9 billion Yen ($84 million) for the September 2010 quarter, from a loss of 59 billion Yen ($720 million loss) in the previous September quarter. This alone appears to be why Sony is profitable as the other divisions are not fluctuating nearly as much. Sony says total game business sales (PS2, PSP, PS3) decreased over the last September quarter but PS3 was up on Move, and production costs for PS3 are dropping alot.
For the quarter ending September 2010, Sony says it shipped 3.5m PS3s (compared to 2.8m X360s and 2m Wiis, even though our sell through data has X360 outselling PS3 by 1m units over that period and Wii at the same level as PS3). Last year Sony shipped about 1m more PS3s than it sold in the September quarter, but that was due to the Slim and Price Cut pushes...this year its a bit hard to figure how Sony was able to accomplish such a figure especially since Sony sold 2.4m PS3s during the September 2009 quarter and shipped only 3.2m systems then. Furthermore, shipping 2.2m normal PS3s and 500,000 - 1,000,000 Move bundles should have easily covered demand based on our figures, as some Move users are existing PS3 owners buying the necessary parts to enjoy motion gaming. It isn't like PS3 sky-rocketed to 400,000 per week when Move launched. Sony also shipped 1.5m PS2s and PSPs.
Lifetime to date hardware shipments for Sony's three platforms stand at the following levels:
PS2 - 1.5m / 147.6m
PSP - 1.5m / 64.2m
PS3 - 3.5m / 41.63m (less than 3m units shipped behind X360 through September 2010)
Over the first six months of the fiscal year, Sony has shipped 5.9m PS3s, 3.1m PS2s, and 2.7m PSPs. Sony's target for each platform remains unchanged for the fiscal year - 15m for PS3, 8m for PSP, and 6m for PSP. To meet the PS3 figure Sony probably doesn't just needs a flat Christmas quarter now - which is good as PS3 consistently sold 300,000 per week most of last fall and the GT5 release date is up in the air - as PS3 shipments are 1.6m units ahead of where they were in the first six months of the March 2010 fiscal year. Sony has to ship 9.1m systems over the next six months to meet the PS3 target for the fiscal year, which is comparable to the 8.7m PS3s shipped over the last six months of the March 2010 year.The PSP target looks doable as well, given the system is likely to see a 3.5m-4m Christmas quarter (up in Japan offset by declines in the West). PS2 is ahead of PSP in the fiscal year but will see far lower growth over the Christmas quarter, and so that figure is doable as well.
For software, Sony still expects software shipments to reach about 195m units - the level obtained last year. So far, Sony is about 10m units ahead of the pace it set to reach 195m - at 89m vs. 79m from April to September 2010. Nonetheless, Sony's three systems will probably have a weaker software performance over Oct-Dec than last year, as PSP and PS2 slow, particularly in the West and PS3 remains flat on a weaker lineup of big titles. Sony doesn't split the 195m forecast down, but with PS3 at 135m over the last year and PSP software slowly shrinking and PS2 rapidly shrinking, the split should be something like 135m-140m PS3 sw / 35-40m PSP SW / 15-20m PS2 sw.
During the September quarter, software shipments for its platforms were as follows. Totals are listed after the slash.
PS2 - 5.6m / 1521.8m
PS3 - 35.3m / 350.6m
PSP - 11m / 271.2m
These figures put the shipment attach rate at 10.31 games per user for PS2, 4.22 games per user for PSP, and 8.42 games per user for PS3.
I'll have an update on the big three shipment figures through September 2010 shortly.
Tochaco interesante XD
http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82575/sony-profits-ships-35m-ps3s-in-september-10-quarter/
Sony's financial results for the quarter ending September 2010 have just arrived. Revenues at Sony reached 1.733 trillion Yen, or $20.881 billion for three months ending September 2010. Profit from that revenue reached 31.1b Yen, or $375 million, essentially for every $100 Sony earned, $1.70 ended up as profit. Sony says it was damaged, as Nintendo and other Japanese companies are by the strong Yen but was able to rebound on the Networked Products & Services division (which houses the Playstation products, Vaio PCs and other devices). In the previous September quarter, Sony had revenues (using current Yen rates) 4% less than in the current year, and the company lost over $300 million (again at current Yen rates).
Sony's Networked Products & Services division swung to operating income of 6.9 billion Yen ($84 million) for the September 2010 quarter, from a loss of 59 billion Yen ($720 million loss) in the previous September quarter. This alone appears to be why Sony is profitable as the other divisions are not fluctuating nearly as much. Sony says total game business sales (PS2, PSP, PS3) decreased over the last September quarter but PS3 was up on Move, and production costs for PS3 are dropping alot.
For the quarter ending September 2010, Sony says it shipped 3.5m PS3s (compared to 2.8m X360s and 2m Wiis, even though our sell through data has X360 outselling PS3 by 1m units over that period and Wii at the same level as PS3). Last year Sony shipped about 1m more PS3s than it sold in the September quarter, but that was due to the Slim and Price Cut pushes...this year its a bit hard to figure how Sony was able to accomplish such a figure especially since Sony sold 2.4m PS3s during the September 2009 quarter and shipped only 3.2m systems then. Furthermore, shipping 2.2m normal PS3s and 500,000 - 1,000,000 Move bundles should have easily covered demand based on our figures, as some Move users are existing PS3 owners buying the necessary parts to enjoy motion gaming. It isn't like PS3 sky-rocketed to 400,000 per week when Move launched. Sony also shipped 1.5m PS2s and PSPs.
Lifetime to date hardware shipments for Sony's three platforms stand at the following levels:
PS2 - 1.5m / 147.6m
PSP - 1.5m / 64.2m
PS3 - 3.5m / 41.63m (less than 3m units shipped behind X360 through September 2010)
Over the first six months of the fiscal year, Sony has shipped 5.9m PS3s, 3.1m PS2s, and 2.7m PSPs. Sony's target for each platform remains unchanged for the fiscal year - 15m for PS3, 8m for PSP, and 6m for PSP. To meet the PS3 figure Sony probably doesn't just needs a flat Christmas quarter now - which is good as PS3 consistently sold 300,000 per week most of last fall and the GT5 release date is up in the air - as PS3 shipments are 1.6m units ahead of where they were in the first six months of the March 2010 fiscal year. Sony has to ship 9.1m systems over the next six months to meet the PS3 target for the fiscal year, which is comparable to the 8.7m PS3s shipped over the last six months of the March 2010 year.The PSP target looks doable as well, given the system is likely to see a 3.5m-4m Christmas quarter (up in Japan offset by declines in the West). PS2 is ahead of PSP in the fiscal year but will see far lower growth over the Christmas quarter, and so that figure is doable as well.
For software, Sony still expects software shipments to reach about 195m units - the level obtained last year. So far, Sony is about 10m units ahead of the pace it set to reach 195m - at 89m vs. 79m from April to September 2010. Nonetheless, Sony's three systems will probably have a weaker software performance over Oct-Dec than last year, as PSP and PS2 slow, particularly in the West and PS3 remains flat on a weaker lineup of big titles. Sony doesn't split the 195m forecast down, but with PS3 at 135m over the last year and PSP software slowly shrinking and PS2 rapidly shrinking, the split should be something like 135m-140m PS3 sw / 35-40m PSP SW / 15-20m PS2 sw.
During the September quarter, software shipments for its platforms were as follows. Totals are listed after the slash.
PS2 - 5.6m / 1521.8m
PS3 - 35.3m / 350.6m
PSP - 11m / 271.2m
These figures put the shipment attach rate at 10.31 games per user for PS2, 4.22 games per user for PSP, and 8.42 games per user for PS3.
I'll have an update on the big three shipment figures through September 2010 shortly.
Tochaco interesante XD
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