Sony has reported its Q1 financials for the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2023.
The outcomes discover a marginal year-over-year (yoy) enhance in PlayStation 5 gross sales, declines in software program unit gross sales, and a small uptick in digital models offered.
For the quarter, Sony reported a 4% yoy enhance for PS5. The console shipped 2.4 million models, up from 2.3 million reported throughout the identical quarter in 2021. In all, the console has shipped 21.7 million models worldwide.
In software program, full sport gross sales had been down 26% to 47.1 million models, a decline of 16.5 million in comparison with the identical quarter in 2021 when the corporate reported 63.6 million software program models offered.
The quarter noticed a lower in gross sales of non-first-party titles together with add-on content material, with first-party titles accounting for six.4 million unit gross sales. The determine is a decline of 4.1 million yoy in comparison with 10.5 million models moved through the earlier fiscal yr.
79% of software program gross sales had been attributed to digital downloads, in comparison with 71% yoy.
Sony additionally reported a rise in PlayStation Plus members, now numbering 47.3 million, which is an uptick of two% in comparison with the prior fiscal yr.
That stated, the entire of Month-to-month Lively Customers (MAUs) declined 3% to 102 million MAUs.
As a complete, Sony’s Sport & Community Providers sector reported $4.5 billion in gross sales, a 2% yoy downturn as a consequence of declining gross sales and rising prices.