Sony just released their quarterly financial report for calendar Q4 2007, which is fiscal Q3 2007. Below, I refer to this as calendar Q4.
Their game division reports an operating profit of $113 million (operating income – operating expenses). Money spent on hardware isn’t booked as an expense until that hardware is sold.
Hardware Sales in Quarter
(in millions)
| Q4, 2007 | Q4, 2006 | |
|---|---|---|
| PS2 | 5.40 | 6.75 |
| PSP | 5.76 | 4.71 |
| PS3 | 4.90 | 1.66 |
Software Sales in Quarter
(in millions)
| Q4, 2007 | Q4, 2006 | |
|---|---|---|
| PS2 | 60.9 | 78.6 |
| PSP | 18.3 | 21.3 |
| PS3 | 26.0 | 5.3 |
It’s nice to see that Sony’s game division is turning a profit.
UPDATE:
Bad News: PS3 Sales targest for FY’07 (4/1/07 through 3/31/08) are lowered by 1.5 million from the original 11 million target to 9.5 million.
Good News #1: PSP sales targets are increased by 3 million from 10 million to 13 million.
Good News #2: PS3 outsold 360 for the overall fourth quarter of 2007! PS3 sold 4.9 milllion units worldwide, while 360 sold 4.3 million units. Way to go PS3!
Written by: Darrin
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#1 by SL33PY on January 31st, 2008
somehow the financial market didn’t like these numbers, eventough they do impres me.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SNE
they went down for 1,94% (at the moment of writing)
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#2 by Segitz on January 31st, 2008
Because Sony lowered its projected sales of the PS3 (but they raised it for the PS2 and PSP)…
Stock markets are an abomination!!
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#3 by Mellon on January 31st, 2008
That’s good news. Very good news.
- SonyPG.com
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#4 by Eddie on January 31st, 2008
The interesting part is if you add up the numbers…they are over 14 million units shipped.
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#5 by Jast3r Rogu3 on February 1st, 2008
Looking at the big picture.
PS3 1ts year > x360 1st year by far.
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