Sony’s latest quarterly report included some bad news for the company, marked by a 31% drop in operating profit from April to June. Though PS5 sales fell below expectations, Sony still says that it expects the console to sell 25 million this financial year, which would be a record for the console. (Current sales for the console are more than 40 million).
Regarding the 3.3 million PS5s sold in the last quarter, Sony management said, “This amount is somewhat less than the expected progress toward our fiscal year sales target of 25 million units, but, due to promotions begun in July, we are seeing an improvement in the momentum of sales.”
Sony added: “We have positioned the accelerated penetration of PS5 hardware as one of the highest priorities in this fiscal year, and we will try to work steadily to implement necessary measures to achieve our hardware sales target of 25 million units.”