Sony announced through financial report the sales results from the beginning of the year to the end of the third month. Despite the high numbers, they still recorded a decline of 0.9 million for the same period compared to last year. When we consider the titles that have been released (and, more importantly, those that will be released) after March, this number will surely grow throughout the year.
Although the PSN network continues to grow, game sales have slowed down a bit, and Sony is slowly spending money on what interests us all, which is the next generation!
What do the numbers say?
125 million people are hanging out on the PlayStation Network monthly. That's a million more than last year, which means the team is still loyal to the blue camp.
Game sales have fallen. 74.6 million games were sold (combined PS4 and PS5), which is 1.5 million less than in the same period last year.
Digital is king. A whopping 85% of all sold games were purchased digitally. Physical editions are slowly becoming a thing of the past, whether we like it or not.
Sony predicts that their earnings will remain roughly the same, and the reason is interesting: they have started to seriously invest in the development of the next generation console. If it weren't for those costs, their profit would be growing double digits, but they prefer to spend on the future.
As for the PlayStation 5 itself, they plan to produce it depending on how favorably they can acquire memory on the market. So, the goal is to maintain the console's profitability at the same level as before, without sudden price jumps (let's hope).
