Games business makes monster profit.
Higher sales of PlayStation games and cost reductions on PlayStation 3 hardware helped Sony’s game division to a profit of ¥45.7 billion (£348m / $564m) for the third quarter ended 31st December.
Sales decreased by 6.4 per cent year-on-year, but Sony won’t be too bothered: it’s already sold more PS3s this financial year than all of the previous financial year combined with three months to go.
Financial year to date Sony has shifted 15 million PS3s worldwide 6.3 million of which were sold during the quarter. It sold 13 million PS3s during the entire financial year last time around.