PS2, PSP sales boost Sony's flagging earnings

By Vladimir Cole


Sony today announced earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2005. While the rest of Sony sunk (posting about half the profit it had in the year-ago period), the games business was a bright spot for the company. Here's a summary of the games portion of the earnings release:

  • Sales increased 79.1% (vs. the year-ago period) "as a result of the contribution from hardware and software
    sales of the PlayStation Portable"

  • "an increase of PlayStation 2 ("PS2") unit sales in Europe and the U.S. compared to the same quarter of the
    previous fiscal year resulted in a significant increase in sales in all geographic areas." (Say what? How does that
    work?)

  • "Overall software sales increased as a result of the contribution to sales from PSP software, despite a decrease
    in PS2 software sales."

  • PS2 shipments: 5.01 million units (an increase of 3.02 million units)

  • PSP shipments: 3.75 million units (no year-ago period to compare it to)

  • PS2 software shipments: 50 million units (a decrease of 6 million units)

  • PSP software shipments: 9.0 million units

[Thanks, Anand]

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