The Japanese company revealed their latest financial results.

The previous fiscal year ended roughly a month ago, and Sony published their financial report here for the final quarter of the 2017 fiscal year (January-March 2018). In this period, 2.5 million PlayStation 4s were shipped, which is 0.4 million less than a year ago. In the previous fiscal year, 19 million were shipped, which is a one million year-on-year decrease.

Regarding sold PlayStation 4s, Sony is at 76 million units, but they are over their peak (and it could only be remedied with either another price cut or making the PlayStation 4 Pro the sole PS4 model on the market, as the user base is going to be hard to be expanded at a rapid rate).

Between April 1, 2018, and March 31, 2019, Sony wants to ship 16 million PlayStation 4s, which would push the figures up to 95 million. It means that Sony is currently at 79 million with all PlayStation 4 variants included (regular model, PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4 Pro).

However, Sony balances this loss with expecting more game sales, which is understandable: God of War, Spider-Man, and Detroit: Become Human could all be best-sellers. 246.9 million games were sold in the previous fiscal year, which is a 29 million year-on-year increase. The PlayStation Plus subscriber base grew by 7.8 million to 34.2 million.

Sony predicts a 2.3% decrease in sales income (fewer console sales, an impact of foreign exchange rates, but they forecast more network sales, aka the PlayStation Store, would pull in more game sales than a year before), and they also expect a 12.5 billion yen increase in their operating income.

So, Sony is over their peak, and it’s understandable that they are concentrate on PlayStation 5. Will they pull out a price cut announcement at E3 this year?

Source: Sony, VG247