The present also seems bright at the moment.

Another US patent surfaced that identifies our fingers via a wrist device with cameras on our other hand. The necessary data/images are forwarded to a head-mount display, which is a PlayStation VR in other words. In short, it seems Sony tries to create gameplay without controllers, and that could be amazing, as it would not require holding either a PlayStation Move or a DualShock 4 in our hands, making the gameplay more realistic than ever before.

Jumping to the present, Bloomberg reports that Sony has raised its outlook for the current fiscal year that ends on the last day of March in 2019. The profit was increased from 670 billion Japanese yen (5.9 billion dollars) to 870 (7.72 billion USD), plus the revenue forecast was also increased from 8.6 trillion JPY to 8.7T JPY. The reasoning is that the PlayStation 4 is helping Sony’s problematic smartphone arm of the company, and the console is getting a stable income from several third-party games aside from the first-party Spider-Man – namely Red Dead Redemption 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, and Fortnite. No wonder Damian Thong, Macquarie Group’s analyst says the current year is „the best year for the PlayStation for first-party games and overall profitability of the platform.”

If Sony makes such announcements like a 2 TB PlayStation 4 Pro in Japan hitting the stores on November 21 for 44980 JPY (roughly 400 dollars), then Thong has a point. If Sony can bring over the console to the West with a competitive price (like 450 dollars), its sales performance should increase even higher than before.

Source: GamerGen, GameSpot, Gematsu