Sony has reported its Q1 financials for the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2023.
The outcomes discover a marginal year-over-year (yoy) improve 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 improve 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 have 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 in the course of the earlier fiscal yr.
79% of software program gross sales have 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 mentioned, the overall of Month-to-month Lively Customers (MAUs) declined 3% to 102 million MAUs.
As a complete, Sony’s Sport & Community Companies sector reported $4.5 billion in gross sales, a 2% yoy downturn because of declining gross sales and rising prices.