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What is the point of Xbox? (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Say what you will about Sony and Nintendo but they have output and they care about gaming because they have to, it’s the only way they make money.

You are aware that Sony makes lots of other things besides games too?

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at Sony’s annual reports and then get back to me. PlayStation is the engine that drives the company.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe you should take your own advice, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/297533/sony-sales-worldwide-by-business-segment/ for the latest available year there (2022) the business segment "Game and network services" is only around 26 billion out of 88 billion total.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The sale figures are a bit misleading as the different sections also have different costs (sales make games look more important).

The corporate reports are archived here, and the equivalent per-section breakdown is on page 37 of the 2023 report.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/corporatereport/

When comparing operating revenue (i.e. profit) the breakdown is:

section billion yen
games and network services 250
music 263
pictures 119
entertainment technology & services 180
imaging & sensing solutions 212
financial services 234
other 17

So it looks like they made a little more profit from music that year.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago
  1. Revenue is not profit.
  2. Gaming is by far the biggest bar in that graph.

I stand by my point.