The PlayStation 5, which is not available at all, is in short supply but is achieving the highest sales ever
Sony held a business briefing on May 26, 2022, and announced that 2021 sales and operating profit in the game & network service field reached a record high during the platform transition period. At the same time, it is predicted that the supply shortage of '
Sony Business Segment Briefings 2022 Game & Network Services Segment_J --GNS_J.pdf
(PDF file) https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/irday/pdf/2022/GNS_J.pdf
According to Sony's announcement material, in the game & network service field, sales in 2021 were 2.74 trillion yen and operating profit was 346 billion yen, which was the highest sales & operating profit in the platform transition period. ..
Below is a summary of the high demand for PS5. The percentage of Americans who showed interest in the PS4 released in November 2013 was 28%, while the percentage of Americans interested in the PS5 released in November 2020 was 28%. The 'ratio shown' remains at a high level of 55%. Also, checking the sales momentum of each hardware in the United States in the year following the release, PS4 sold 80,000 units in just 82 minutes, while PS4 took 9 days to sell 80,000 units. So, you can see that the demand is very high even after more than a year has passed since the product was released.
As mentioned above, PS5 keeps high demand, but the supply shortage is remarkable, and the cumulative sales volume in the first year of release exceeded PS4, but it fell below the cumulative sales volume of PS4 in the second year. I did. In addition, it is predicted that the cumulative sales volume of PS4 will continue to fall below the cumulative sales volume of PS4 in the third year due to the effects of 'impact on parts inventory due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus infection' and 'logistics restrictions due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine'. It has been. Sony is reviewing its supply chain to alleviate the supply shortage, and is expected to overtake the cumulative sales of PS4 from the fourth year onward.
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In addition, Sony is proceeding with PC porting of in-house developed games such as ' Horizon Zero Dawn ', ' Days Gone ' , and 'God of War ', and in 2021, sales of PC version games will be 80 million dollars (about 10.2 billion yen). ) Has been reached. Sales of PC games are expected to continue to grow, reaching $ 300 million in 2022.
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