The Sony president's comments don't come as much of a surprise. In fact, they back up the company's recent full-year earnings report that showed gaming-related sales had shot up 53 percent on the back of the PS4. The bottom line was also helped by Sony's gaming services, with "approximately half" of the 7 million PlayStation 4 owners worldwide having subscribed to PlayStation Plus. While none of this is likely to fix the company's deeper financial issues any time soon -- it still forecasts an overall loss in 2014 -- Hirai believes the upcoming launches of PlayStation Now (now in beta) and Sony's new cloud-based TV-streaming service (coming later this year) "have the potential to combine and develop into a platform capable of generating even greater profit." A few more solid exclusive PS4 titles probably also wouldn't hurt.