Sony’s PlayStation division accounted for 78% of its Q1 2016 profits

Gaming is the bright shining star at Sony Corp.

The company reported the results of its first fiscal quarter today, and it revealed that it generated $3.2 billion in revenues from its game and network services division during the three-month period ending June 30. That is up 14.5 percent from the same period in 2015. This segment of Sony’s business also brought in $427 million in operating income, which is up a massive 126.3 percent year-over-year. That makes up 78 percent of the company’s $546 million in quarterly profits. Sony has the dominant console in the $99.6 billion worldwide gaming business, and the PlayStation 4 is turning into one of its most important money makers.

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Sony really should give up on everything that isn't it's phones(They make nice fucking phones) and gaming division.
Then maybe if they had all their finances in the gaming division's basket they could release a piece of hardware that's actually something to be impressed with

I thought most of their money was on insurance.

A lot of people think that for some reason even though it's absolutely false.
I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped everything else and just go all into PlayStation when the Neo launches.

They really need to ditch the movie business. Stick to vidya and insurance policies.

They should have whoever they have left in their movie and music branches to transfer to gaming since Sony knows that the easiest way to milk normalfag money is with more movie games. Then again, they might be already doing it. ;)

So paid online is keeping sony a float?

I thought most of Sony's money was dumped into marketing. They may as well be a marketing firm.

If they stop funding obvious movie bombs, they'd likely get a profit outside of gaming.

Wish I had the list on me but it was pretty bad what they released and are releasing this year.

At least some upcoming movies from 2017-2019 don't look that promising. Another Resident Evil movie, Jumanji, Barbie movie and Bad Boys 3 and 4 don't scream best selling. The Dark Tower might with good with Idris Elba.

Amazing Spiderman 3 never ever

GOD DAMMIT WHY DOES Holla Forums HAVE TO BE RIGHT AGAIN.

So the movie branch is led by an incompetent jewess? Damn.

Why do you want more hipster spidey? I know the upcoming millennial spidey may be just as bad or slightly better but you can always just stick to the first 2 Raimi movies.

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A white woman who converted to Judaism or an actual ethnically-jewish hook nose?

She had emails leak saying "we are taking all of the boys toys".

Daily reminder, Cisbusters is more important to Sony than the Vita

Microsoft really blew their chance to kill off Sony once and for all.

How is this news?

Used to be the game division was floundering.

So much potential yet they still fucked up.

Because the CELL processor was a fiasco.

Sony Pictures is ran by different people than Sony Entertainment.

Isn't the Neo just a 4k PS4?

It is probably to push their VR gimmick.

Their TV's are top tier though

They also make angry bird, an unintentionally red pill movie about immigrant

More along the lines of the n3ds. A slightly more powerful version that get boosted grafix/performance and may get some exclusives.

To be fair:

The earthquake in Japan is still fucking things up.

But it's undeniable that Sony is relying heavily on the entertainment part of the business.

It's far more powerful, mate.
It's honestly what the PS4 should have been at launch, but Sony rushed it because the previous gen already went on for longer than they wanted it to.
I mean, the PS4's been out for two and a half years and it's still pretty much nogaems.

that's kinda what happens when you try to force proprietary formats and cables on fucking everything.

I would have bought a vita if it wasnt for the dumb ass vita cards

Only the first 5 years of the PS3. They sold a console below cost, every unit sold lost them money. Microsoft had the same problem with the original Xbox- which is why MS killed it as soon as they could.

Sony has consistently been making tons of money on their PlayStation brand. Not as much as Nintendo though, nobody can out Jew Nintendo.

Nintendo does proprietary cables and chargers and Nintendo fans love it.

Sometimes it works.

Don't think anyone gives a shit about the cables so long as they don't have to pay extra.

Did this get a free pass because it's a childrens movie?

Nintendo doesn't even include their fucking chargers anymore. That's what you were alluding to right?

And still no games besides Bloodborne

It had EDF 4.1 but well that got ported.

It has three Yakuza games but we definitely won't get one of them and with how bad sega mismanages that franchise in the west it will probably be years before we get the other two.

Isn't Sega thinking about porting all those games to PC?

Who knows fucking sony had to translate Yakuza 5 for a digital only release because sega are a bunch of faggots that hate western money.

Their film division is poison and should have been dumped off to Disney (Who would have paid billions for it just to get back some properties) but there's too many people with influence from pictures on the board to ever let it go.

Also, a lot of analysts and investors are saying the results mean they are going to have huge trouble outside of video games as they expect a massive push by Samsung and LG to dwarf the market along with the iPhone 7 rampaging the phone market this year. And Sony are already losing a lot of ground to newer waves of chinkbricks in the shrinking android market. Along with losing precious Apple contracts to Samsung (The Earthquake was the least worst thing to happen to the semi-conductor business. Apple reducing their orders was). There's a lot of calls to just to call it a day on trying to "Turn around" because otherwise they will be living quarter by quarter on PlayStation alone and the last gen switch from Wii/360 to PC or PS4 shows how fickle the gaming market can be and how it could be easily disrupted by the right new product at the right time (Especially as we get closer to Neo launch. Digital Foundry did a test system and found the results underwhelming. Neofag are busy throwing them under the bus and saying "Power no longer matters").

Also, important note. This quarter isn't the one with Cisbusters included. That will be the next quarter. And with Sony's summer box office already being lined with flops, it's only going to get worse.

Nice source but I raise you.


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This is their most recent release as the 2015-2016 financial year hasn't ended.

Sony was one of the companies that created HDMI. A cancer for games, it gives you permanent input lag on PS3 (360 and xbone have the encryption disabled for games)

PS4 is good if you want to play the game ranging from years to decades before getting to PC. By then the game has been spoiled and overused like used and broken condom.

The PS4 Neo is a direct result of the inexpensive semi-custom x86 hardware used. Sony and MS don't have to recoup billions in custom hardware R&D, so they can more rapidly iterate without breaking compatibility or incurring severe additional R&D cost. This is going to become the new standard procedure, expect every console to get a new upgraded version after 3-4 years. Maybe even faster if they get enough suckers double-dipping for a modestly improved experience. Early adopters have always been sort of gullible, now they're literally paying top dollar to beta test new systems pending the definitive version's release.

But if the rumored specs are true, it might finally be worth having. It's a pretty big jump from the original PS4. Though, don't believe anyone who tells you it's going to render games at 4K.

What will be interesting to see is what they do in the handheld market, because they abandoned the Vita two years ago and have done nothing since then. It's only limping along thanks to the devoted efforts of Japanese devs making animu petting games.

The vita never even should have been made this soon, the PSP was doing fine.

Gotta make $80 proprietary memory cards for more money goyim.

People outside and even inside Holla Forums actually think it will reach 4K resolutions.
Its pretty funny to watch really.

But even that's bullshit, they killed the PSP early and the Vita ended up being a dud.
If anything, this most likely ended up getting them less money than if they had just continued supporting the PSP.

Try to read a bit more.

I didn't say it was a good idea user. These fucking business men are so fucking out of touch they think anyone will buy anything that they shit out.

They way modern companies set up is so mind-blowingly stupid, I really can't even grasp this problem. Basically people who have no knowledge about anything other than jewing out one more dime from the goyim are in positions to influence whole industries. This is the same reason Western video games are so shitty. Bunch of psychopaths only care about making even more profit, and so they just want to sell more instead of pandering to lots of small but loyal fanbases. And once they fucked up everything, they just move away with all the money they've got over the years and fuck up some other industries. Then their kids will be little shitheads who will never work a day, because hedge funds cover them for their entire lives.

inb4: I like simple and honest business. Modern corporations aren't about simple and honest business, and that is my problem.


Is it really shrinking? Or there are just no new areas, as by now even most sandniggers have a smartphone?


When and where was this earthquake?

It's sad how it killed the massive flow of weekly game releases the PSP had in Japan. On the other hand it gave the PS3 a bit more life since devs shifted to ps3/vita games. Vita will die even more when the japs stop supporting the ps3 though.

They're not wrong
Sometimes they just bite the hand that feeds them a little too hard

Its shrinking because Samsung is centralizing Android.
Pretty much any other Android using brand is struggling to get by.

If they weren't wrong sony would be making money off of more than their fifa machine.

The market for new phone sales is, which is primarily what manufacturers are concerned with. Smart phones have gotten good enough that you can buy one midrange and keep it for a few years without updates ruining performance and responsiveness. There's no reason for annual upgrades anymore.

Digital Foundry found 1800P at max but still FPS problems. 1440P at best. But the big problem will be it's CPU and the limited RAM pool. 1440P using some sort of temporal upscale will probably be the max on some titles while others will be 1080P. I wouldn't expect 60FPS upgrades either. Probably only holding the same FPS or a locked V-Sync 30FPS compared to the PS4 vanilla mode with some PC settings flipped a little higher.

Seriously, it's not running Witcher 3 or Fallout 4 at 60FPS. That dream is dead. But it's going to be an interesting market reaction by the normalfags.

Too many companies fighting for a tiny slice of a market Samsung control while Android tablets are shrinking out of the market in favor of Latop 2-in-1's. Samsung recently switched it's flagship tablet to Windows 10 and a lot of OEM's are expected to make the switch over the next year as Google's just given up on tablets and no longer rolling out major tablet updates at this point. Sony's going to have to switch their Xperia tablet range or just end the line (It will be especially stinging because the consortium who bought VIAO are making millions off it licencing out patents and making their own custom 2-in-1 laptops for the asia market).

Source?

Sony doesnt know how to market shit and their brand in anything besides Playstation is largely ignored outside the Asian market.
Their TVs are still behind Samsung and LG sales wise, cameras are barely used, if they aint using their Smarphones to take pics they are buying a Canon.

Playstation is pretty much their bread and butter.
Activision, EA and Activision have aold literal shit and made a profit out of it by ways of marketing, which Sony barely makes use of outside Playstation.

Wait, wasnt that just a gimmick?
I though that shit never caught on but was mimicked just in case.
Barely see anyone using it outside.

Fuck man, normalfag tech disgusts me

Thank God, games are supposed to be a cinematic experience and everyone knows 60FPS ruins that. Nobody wants to play a game that looks like it was recorded on a cheap video camera.

Boku no Geiger counter

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Their TVs are made mostly by Samsung if I recall correctly


I can attest to that personally, but they don't promote them at all, or anything really. Pictured is the only ad I've seen from them for almost 10 years.

Pascal is 100% kike

It caught on with people who wanted to use a tablet at home and a laptop while working outside. Weird stat, but most tablet consumption is in the home and not outdoors. They caught on and do well with the normalfags and especially in Asia markets. A lot of the tablet market is moving to "Form Factor" and "Productivity" over cheap chink slates that play videos as people want to do shit with their tablets. iPad has had up and down growth while Surface has been a huge success for M$ the last few quarters (And I can't even shit on it. The 4 Pro and SurfaceBook are really good once you get past that you are using Botnet 10)

That's going to be a very interesting problem for Nintendo to solve with NX as a hybrid because no one takes their big ass tablets outside.

Sony's been using LG sourced panels with their own firmware the last few years, not Samsung. Which is one of the big disadvantages they have because in the enthusiast market, they are just seen as "More expensive rebadged LG's". And both Samsung and LG have also reduced display lag lately in their FW updates so Sony's bigger advantages are starting to disappear (Just don't leave Gay Porn on your LG TV).

Do Sony cameras even make anything? Or TV'S?

Their biggest money pit is movies.

Exclusives:
Bloodbourne, gravity rush.

Used to be exclusives:
Onechanbara, EDF 4.1

Games coming out:
NeIR automatic, ni-ho

OPs is full of shit in-case his "source" didn't make that clear. The area of their business that actually makes the most money is producing CCD cameras for smartphone manufactures. This business was seriously hurt when they lost a major production plant to the same tsunami that caused Fukushima. That is why Sony started hurting so bad not long after.

Forgot add gravity Rush 2 is coming out.

It probably got a free pass because it wasn't made in Hollywood.

Dont forget about the new 2hus

But the PS4 is shit.
This generation of console brought nothing new but cancer.

This. I only play Japanese games since I hate the Western industry and Nipponese games still come to Sony first and sometimes only.

I'm not a faggot, I didn't buy it for Destiny or GTA5.

They got hurt again recently as the biggest contractor they were supplying, Apple, decided to give more image sensor and semiconductor contracts to Samsung (Samsung's offering better deals lately) and have been eyeing buying a display company in Japan. That's why their sensors are way down along with their production plants being hit by the Tsunami and the recent earthquakes. Samsung's been eating hard into their core businesses.

It's also why the news of their quarter is a shock. Not that the PS4 is doing so good that it provided 78% of revenue, but everything else is doing so bad that people are questioning why Sony is continuing in businesses they don't have a real future in like mobile.

WHENS ACE COMBAT 7

but even they use sd cards m8.
also look how much these piece of shit cost on top of what the vita costs

and who the fuck loves chargers?
at least they've been using the same charger since the DSi

You're a goddamned faggot thats what you are

Is it a bright shining star or is everything else they do just that bad?

everything else they do is just that bad

Both. Playstation is strong (Though Uncharted 4 came slightly under projections according to their sheets and they commented "it did well") but everything else outside of insurance was a catastrophe and if PS4 wasn't doing so good, they would have posted a significant operating loss.

Also this quarter didn't include Ghostbusters remake so the real shitstorm will be the next quarter when PS4 sales will have slowed down for the summer and Sony's film flops really start eating into the bottom line.

But then Hirai was told repeatedly that the film division was poison and to spin it into its own concern away from the company and he didn't listen. So that's going to backfire soon enough.

It's true, insurance is by far their most (net) profitable segment, and one of their bigger ones by (gross) revenue. Note that this pic related is from 2013, but I doubt things have changed much in 3 years.

Forgot, link here:
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I heard Nintendo is doing that with the NES mini which is so bullshit

>they marketed this more than the vita

Also

I did.

Well you're a moron for not knowing that building the three games on top of eachother made each of them better. Statistically speaking odds are out of the three only the first game is going to be actually improved in the remake because knowing activision they're going to make a one size fits all engine and missing the original team you are losing all the gameplay orientation from the original team like rekeying the ice physics for oil slicks in crash 3 from crash 2 or keeping in spinning crouch jumps or making spinning while double jumping making you jump higher because. It's a new team that are going to decide that is a bug. No edge clinging in crash 2. NO FUCKING SPYRO THE DRAGON DEMOS. NO HOLDING TRIANGLE ON THE THIRD DEMO PLAYED ON CRASH THREE AND EXITING THE STAGE TO START WITH EVERY POWERUP.
This is why the remakes were a stupid fucking idea and that time and energy could have gone into remaking a game that actually needs a remake like twinsanity and wrath of cortex.
Which might I add the original fucking developers actually want to fucking do since universal completely fucked them with surprise deadlines.

i like how nobody read the link and you can tell because it's portuguese and people would've complained about it