Yes I believe you're right. Switch was the best selling console in 2018 in the US. PS4 was best worldwide.
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Sony Q3/FY18 Results: 8.1mil PS4 / LTD 94.2mil ( [email protected] subs/FY forecast unchanged @17.5mil)
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Also important, while the operating income decrased for the quarter, they are still way up year on year for the fiscal year. Those numbers righe here are monstrous
Wow an 83% increase in OI for Q1-Q3 from the prior year is incredible.
I really love how Playstation is basically the main profit driver for Sony.
At least it appears they are slowly reinvesting cash into PSN like with the cloud storage increase.
there were still a good amount of people that were confident that worldwide wouldn't be enough to put PS4 ahead
Yup, people really counted their chickens before they hatched.
Wasn't the holiday promotion dropping it down to 45 bucks instead of 60?
Also Black OPS... you know what it's probably Black OPS.
Nah, he's talking about this thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...onsole-of-2018-in-usa-france-and-japan.95051/
The music segment actually posted more than double the operational income of PS (mainly due to the acquisition of EMI which puts them as the biggest music publisher in the world) so for once PS might not be the main profit driver for Sony this quarter.
I had expected Nintendo to edge out Sony in console sales for 2018 once it became evident that Sony wasn't doing a price drop. Damn. 5 years old, on the back-end of its life, and still market leader! But props to Sony, they had a good year both of first-party and, as always, third-party, releases. Sony consoles have become so consistent, I feel like they have done almost everything right this generation.
The lack of official price drops makes this even more impressive, yeah. Sony could have been more aggressive on pricing but in the end, it didn't hurt them much at all.
The lack of official price drops makes this even more impressive, yeah. Sony could have been more aggressive on pricing but in the end, it didn't hurt them much at all.
Ahh yeah the Q3 chart on prior page shows you are correct.
I totally forgot about the EMI purchase too.
Bloody hell. I think that's the first time I've seen a thread like that. Dudes just make threads about anything now. Next peeps gonna start making individual threads about which console sold the best in UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, and so on. Literally seems like a viral marketer going to work.
This puts into prospective how much PS is bigger in the ROTW and Europe than anyone else. Being beating by such a margin (1.5 million in japan alone) and yet closing the gap.
We have numbers for Xbox? or are you just estimating?
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Biggest story of 2018 is once again the network side.
PSN total revenue (Full Game Downloads, Add On Content, Subscriptions) hit 1373 billion yen for the full year, up 48% YoY.
That alone is higher than Nintendo's total revenue for 2018. Haven't even included hardware, accessories or packaged software in the Sony number.
PSN total revenue (Full Game Downloads, Add On Content, Subscriptions) hit 1373 billion yen for the full year, up 48% YoY.
That alone is higher than Nintendo's total revenue for 2018. Haven't even included hardware, accessories or packaged software in the Sony number.
Switch and PS4 so close for the year!
Great result for Sony. I think things will drop considerably this year though, but a price cut could keep them in the game.
Great result for Sony. I think things will drop considerably this year though, but a price cut could keep them in the game.
this is the 55% revenue of services and and games on the pie chart correct?Biggest story of 2018 is once again the network side.
PSN total revenue (Full Game Downloads, Add On Content, Subscriptions) hit 1373 billion yen for the full year, up 48% YoY.
That alone is higher than Nintendo's total revenue for 2018. Haven't even included hardware, accessories or packaged software in the Sony number.
Jesus, makes sense why Nintendo is pushing NSO. It also helps that Sony is pretty good with digital sales and people moving quite a bit to digitalBiggest story of 2018 is once again the network side.
PSN total revenue (Full Game Downloads, Add On Content, Subscriptions) hit 1373 billion yen for the full year, up 48% YoY.
That alone is higher than Nintendo's total revenue for 2018. Haven't even included hardware, accessories or packaged software in the Sony number.
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https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/18q3_supplement.pdf
page 8 has total and historical software and hardware sales, and the digital vs physical in money and units, but page 9 is where you go awww though, as you're right, no new title specific updates, just a list of all the announcements to date
Someone at Sony just needs to give us all the historic shipment data for all of their titles going back to PS1. Ain't no harm at this stage surely. Especially when there's probably a bunch of 10+ million sellers in recent years with Uncharted 3/4, TLoU, God of War, Spidey, Horizon etc.
PS5 has to have BC for PS4 for costumers to gain more trust in the service and buy digitally even more.
So as I guessed PS4 shipped and sold more worldwide than Switch by a small margin during the natural year 2018.
It's surprising to me that if Nintendo and Sony achieve their forecast PS4 also will outsell Switch during this FY. I expected that both would reach 18M-18.5M this FY.
It's surprising to me that if Nintendo and Sony achieve their forecast PS4 also will outsell Switch during this FY. I expected that both would reach 18M-18.5M this FY.
Yes, that thread was about NPD but people were saying there that Switch was also going to outsell PS4 worldwide during 2018, basically calling us crazy to the ones who said may not be the case mostly because PAL region is Sonyland.
They basically fixed/avoided the mistakes they had with PS3 launch. Some during PS3 lifetime, others during PS4.
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They're basically just letting Sony Music pick up the slack at this point. FGO is a golden goose.
They have. They underwent restructuring last year and the new leadership says they've made significant changes. We should see the first steps of that later this month at Mobile World Congress. Just from the leaks we've gotten so far the XZ4 (or whatever it'll be called since there's supposedly a new naming scheme) looks solid, but the "insiders" have been hinting at more for some time now and no one wants to say wtf it is. All we know is those mofos are excited about something. Very curious to see what they'll have to show off.
Interesting. I hope it's something weird like old Sony would produce.
I wonder how much their profits from the Music division come from FGO alone. It's gotta be a pretty sizable chunk.
Jesus, the turn around for Sony this gen has been incredible.Biggest story of 2018 is once again the network side.
PSN total revenue (Full Game Downloads, Add On Content, Subscriptions) hit 1373 billion yen for the full year, up 48% YoY.
That alone is higher than Nintendo's total revenue for 2018. Haven't even included hardware, accessories or packaged software in the Sony number.
Credit to Daniel Ahmad for the 3 pictures above, but can't post more than 2 tweets so I posted just the pic.
Sony as whole:
'Corporate and elimination'?
Who knows. All we can try to gather so far is a 21:9 screen, possibly a 52 megapixel camera, the camera may carry the CineAlta branding which is a branding used on their high end movie cameras, 8K video recording and a bunch of other speculation.
Way too many rumors contradicting other rumors. I wanna know what's going on, but I kinda like it when the water is muddy like this so we can hopefully be surprised at the reveal event.
I knew who made before I clicked it lol.
Congrats to Sony, surprised that it beat the switch, 2019 though will belong to the Switch Pokemon bundle
PS4 is the best selling console of 2018 despite being 5 years old, that's insane. The PS4 is a total beast!