*The US Dollar figures have been converted from Japanese Yen with exchange rate provided in Sony fiscal reports





Sony Corporation - Q1 FY2019 (April - June 2019) :





Sony Revenue : ¥1925.7bn / $17.52B

Sony Operating Profit : ¥230.9bn / $2.10B

Sony Net Profit : ¥152.1bn / $1.38B

Best Operating Profit ever for Sony during Q1

2nd best Net Profit ever for Sony during Q1

Spoiler: Q1 FY2019 CONSOLIDATED RESULTS

Top Biggest Profit Drivers for the Quarter :

Game & Network Services : ¥73.8bn / $0.672B Semiconductors : ¥49.5bn / $0.450B Financial Services : ¥46.1bn / $0.419B Music : ¥38.3bn / $0.348B Electronic Products & Solutions : ¥25.1bn / $0.228B Pictures : ¥0.4bn / $0.004B

Best Revenue and Operating Profit ever for Music during Q1

Best Revenue and 2nd Best Operating Profit ever for Imaging and Sensing Solutions during Q1

Best Revenue ever for Financial Services during Q1

Spoiler: Q1 FY2019 RESULTS BY SEGMENT









Gaming Division - Q1 FY2019 Results (April - June 2019) :















Gaming Revenue : ¥457.5bn / $4.16B

Gaming Operating Profit : ¥73.8bn / $0.672B

2nd best Revenue and Operating Profit ever for PlayStation during Q1

PS4 shipped : 3.2m

PS4 LTD : 100m



Software sold : 42.9m

Software digital ratio : 53%

PS+ Members : 36.2m

Therefore, at least 1 billion games have been sold since PS4 launch

Gaming Division - Updated FY2019 Forecast (April 2019 - March 2020) :





Gaming Revenue : ¥2200bn / $20.37B

Gaming Operating Profit : ¥280bn / $2.59B

PS4 shipments : 15m

Summary of PS4 numbers





Previous threads :

(-1.4% YoY from ¥1953.6bn / $17.91B - Q1 FY2018)(+18.4% YoY from ¥195bn / $1.79B - Q1 FY2018)(-32.8% YoY from ¥226.4bn / $2.08B - Q1 FY2018)Last Q1, "Profit before income taxes" and therefore "Net profit" were inflated by an extraordinary item (unrealized and realized gains on shares of Spotify [+112.8 bln yen, net / $1.03B]).Here's a table with Adjusted Results excluding one-time gain/loss, compared to Original ResultsWithout one-time gain/loss for Q1 FY18 and Q1 FY19, results saw an increase over last Q1(-3.1% YoY from ¥472.1bn / $4.33B - Q1 FY2018)(-11.6% YoY from ¥83.5bn / $0.765B - Q1 FY2018)This quarter, the Gaming Division accounts for :- 23.8% of Sony total Sales/Revenue (vs 24.2% - Q1 FY2018)- 31.6% of Sony total Operating Profit (vs 38.3% - Q1 FY2018)(vs 3.2m - Q1 FY2018)(vs 40.6m - Q1 FY2018)(vs 43% - Q1 FY2018)(up from 33.9m - Q1 FY2018)There are now more than 924m games sold (without FY13 & FY14) and as of Jan 4th 2015 (end of FY14), there were 81.8m games sold-through !(down from ¥2300bn / $20.90B - April 2019 forecast)(flat from ¥280bn / $2.55B - April 2019 forecast)(down from 16m - April 2019 forecast)