Sony has released its financials for the first quarter of the financial year, revealing the PlayStation 4 continues to exceed all expectations.

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3 million consoles were sold in the three month period ending June 30, up from 2.7 million sold in the same window last year. This means lifetime sales for the console now stand at 25.3 million - and it hasn't even been out for two years yet. In contrast, it took the PS2 a comparatively sluggish two years and eight months to hit 20 million units sold.With sales proving so strong - and continuing to grow - Sony has revised how many of its latest console it plans to sell this year. Where is originally expected to shift 16 million consoles this financial year, it's now predicting sales of 16.5 million, up from 14.8 million last year. If this is correct, the PS4 will sell 38.8 million units by 31 March, 2016.The PlayStation arm of Sony's business has once again proved hugely successful, pulling in an operating income of $160 million from revenues of $2.365 billion. A huge part of this was Sony managing to drop production costs for the console, which meant a 12 percent rise in sales for the quarter actually translated into a staggering 350 percent rise in operating income.The strengthening of the dollar hurt Sony's bottom line, wiping off ¥15.6 billion from a total revenue of ¥288.6 billion, but this was outweighed by the increase in sales and production efficiency. Sony has also added another ¥20 billion in operating income to its full year forecast for the Games and Network Services arm.Vita sales again weren't mentioned in the report, while PS3 sales are going down. The Network sector, which includes game, video and music, brought in revenues of ¥105.8 billion - an impressive figure, considering Hardware pulled in ¥129.5 billion. The Other section brought in ¥30.6 billion.Overall, Sony's had a good quarter, taking home $676 million in net income from sales of nearly $15 billion. While smartphone and mid-range LCD television sales declined, the corporation has its Devices, Imaging, Financial Services and Music to thank for its good results - all earned a higher operating income than Games and Network.

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