Sony Q2 FY2022 consolidated results (25M PS5 sold, 102 PSN MAU, PS Plus 45.4M)

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WIP OP: I'm constantly editing it as I read the documents.

They performed better than last year in revenue and increased their forecast for the whole FY2022. In gaming they had more sales than in the previous year but less profit for the quarter and FY forecast due to -as expected- costs associated to acquisitions (Bungie etc), dollar exchange and decrease 3rd party sales.

This revenue means the best Q2 in gaming history for any console maker but in Yen, not in dollars due to USD being too strong thanks to the war in Ukraine and EU sanctions to Russia. Thanks to the new PS+ and subbers moving to more expensive tiers, Sony had in this quarter the biggest game subs revenue any console maker ever had in a quarter.

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Seems they produced around 3M consoles and didn't ship them. I assume they are GoWR/CoD bundles or are saved for the Holidays season:
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Had a spike during lockdowns, but gameplay time remains very strong after it. More gameplay time on average means more money spent for user, so to keep gameplay time high is good for them for the long term.
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The percent of PS5 users subscribers to PS+ is higher than it is (or was at the same point) in PS4. The new PS+ didn't meant a subbers increase, but many subbers moved to a more expensive tier, which meant revenue increase breaking this Q2 the record of biggest quarterly revenue from game subs from any console maker in history and increasing related revenue 16.49% YoY:
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Even if game units sold went down YoY due to less big sellers released compared to previous year specially in 3rd party, hardware, software, game subs and other revenues grew YoY. Inside software there was a special growth in digital sales but addons remained pretty flat.
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They sold 5.7M PS5 during H1 FY2022. Have to sell 12.3M during H2 FY2022 to achieve their 18M PS5 sold target for FY2022. Sony said in the call to be solving the chips shortage and being able to produce more units than expected and now plan to exceed the 18M target. Also mentioned that the price increase didn't negatively affect demand at least until now. They expect to sell 23M PS5 during FY2023 which means it will outsell PS4 launch aligned during that year.

They mentioned that Spider-Man Remastered is the fastest selling PC port so far. GoW 2018 achieved 23M units sold. Meaning that very likely GoW PC is over 3M units sold and Spider-Man PC above 1M, probably even around 2M (GoW sold 971K during a couple of months and a half).

Sony improved sales and income YoY, revenue improved in most main divisions even if negatively impacted by the rise of the dollar value:
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Look at the inventory increase for the game division, I assume it means that the chips are finally here and got a huge chunk for the over 12M PS5 they want to sell during this H2 FY2022:
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Their gaming division has the biggest ROI, which means that if in the future a Sony big fish asks where to invest that would help to choose -or focus more their investments in- the gaming division:
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They increased their forecast for the whole Sony and also their game division:
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(61 billion yen = $412.5M)
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This is a good result, and the best has yet to come in this quarter, in the form of COD MW2 (third-party sales), God of War Ragnarok (first-party sales), and PS5 holiday stock.
 
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Vgcharts off by 540,000
Which is around 2 months sales
Forget VGchartz and their fake numbers.

They are slowly increasing the PS5 numbers as we speak to make them look closer to the current 24.7M. But well, this time they are closer than usual. Typically they give Sony way less units than the real ones, and boost MS and Nintendo numbers compared to the real ones:

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They said on the earnings call that they actually produced 6.5 million ps5’s for the quarter and haven’t shipped 3m. They are most likely holiday bundles

They are also increasing their forecast of 18m to be much more. They say they’ve exceeded expectations are far as stock goes
 

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Forget VGchartz and their fake numbers.

They are slowly increasing the PS5 numbers as we speak to make them look closer to the current 24.7M. But well, this time they are closer than usual. Typically they give Sony way less units than the real ones, and boost MS and Nintendo numbers compared to the real ones:

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Yeah the reason i linked VGchartz is because a lot of people love to quote sales from there
 
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They said on the earnings call that they actually produced 6.5 million ps5’s for the quarter and haven’t shipped 3m. They are most likely holiday bundles

They are also increasing their forecast of 18m to be much more. They say they’ve exceeded expectations are far as stock goes
I assume they were GoW bundles.
 
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It's hard to believe that earning all that money Sony isn't capable of hiring decent English translators with good accent and pronunciation.

Most of our posters are capable of discerning professional analysts from console warriors.
The problem is that some people thinks VGChartz are professional analysts instead of what they are, random console warriors users making fan guesses acting as if their numbers were legit. This is why they should be banned as source.
 

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It's hard to believe that earning all that money Sony isn't capable of hiring decent English translators with good accent and pronunciation.


The problem is that some people thinks VGChartz are professional analysts instead of what they are, random console warriors users making fan guesses acting as if their numbers were legit. This is why they should be banned as source.
We should burn books as well.
 

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PlayStation 5 has shipped 25 million units worldwide, Sony announced in its financial results for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022. • 45.4m PS Plus subscribers (-1.8m) • PS5 & PS4 software combined sold 62.5m units (-13.9m)

Down to 102 million monthly active users while Steam users increased....

I am very disappointed and worried about how PlayStation is being managed for its longterm health. I can already see eroding of the userbase.
 

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They said on the earnings call that they actually produced 6.5 million ps5’s for the quarter and haven’t shipped 3m. They are most likely holiday bundles

They are also increasing their forecast of 18m to be much more. They say they’ve exceeded expectations are far as stock goes
That is usual.

I said in the past that companies hold production all the year for holidays but people said I had no proof lol

Well there is now.

Sony produced 6.5m and shipped only 3.3m because they are building stock to holiday… 3.2 million units will be shipped together with what they can produc this quarter (Q3).

If they can produce the same 6.5m this quarter then they will have 9.7 million shipped in Q3.

That left 2.6m to be shipped in Q4 to reach the 18 million target… no wonder Sony is expecting to exceed the 18m target.
 
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Sony says it plans on shipping 23m the next fiscal year (not 30m like tom Henderson reported)

And again, they are also projecting over 18m for this fiscal year
I always doubted this guy numbers because they made no sense.
I said the max Sony could ship was around 25m… 23m is very close and in-line with what I said.

30m in a year should be the best a console shipped ever in the industry.
 

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They said on the earnings call that they actually produced 6.5 million ps5’s for the quarter and haven’t shipped 3m. They are most likely holiday bundles

They are also increasing their forecast of 18m to be much more. They say they’ve exceeded expectations are far as stock goes
Yep, this Holiday season will be absolutely crazy for PlayStation -- especially with 0 competition from Xbox.
 

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Long thread I made on Twitter, that might be unpopular but I think needs to be said.

As someone who just got a Deck, I already pay less attention to PSN sales than before. Surely Jimbo could see that coming?
The most likely answer is that all he cares about is his retirement bonus, with little care for costumer satisfaction or brand value in the long term.