Sony has increased its estimated PS4 shipments for this fiscal year in full, raising it by another million from an initial 18 million to 19 million.
The strong sales performance is mirrored across the performance of the video games section of Sony in general. Sony’s full report details that sales for the entire ‘Gaming and Network Services’ segment of Sony’s business were up 35.4% compared to this period last year, at a total of 433.2 billion yen.
Sony attribute the sales surge to an increase in PS4 software sales including those done through the PlayStation Network (where Sony take a bigger cut).
As a whole the rest of Sony continues to do well.  Even the notoriously patchy Sony Pictures business had a strong quarter thanks to performance of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Interestingly, one non-gaming division made great gains thanks to another type of game, with the Visual Media and Platform division getting a big boost thanks to the performance of Fate/Grand Order, a popular mobile game in Japan.
PlayStation 4 sales are expected to be close to 80 million come 2018 and that’s pretty big for Sony.
Stay tuned for more PlayStation news.
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