Sony has significantly boosted its FY2020 gaming sales revenue projections by nearly $1 billion as software sales continue to spike.
In its latest Q2'20 earnings report, games titan Sony has raised its total fiscal year Games and Network Services sales earnings targets by 100 billion yen ($945 million as per Q2 exchange rates). Sony now expects gaming to earn 2.6 trillion yen ($24.57 billion) in FY2020, a rather sizable 35% increase over FY2019's performance.
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The PlayStation 5 is also expected to help drive software sales throughout FY2020 despite releasing in the latter two quarters (Q3-Q4). Hardware is expected to be down YoY due to declining PS4 sales and profit losses from per-console PS5 sales. Gaming segment operating profits are also expected to rise by 60 billion yen to 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion).
Sony likewise saw software growth throughout Q2'20. Software earned 297.061 billion yen ($2.8 billion) in Q2'20 and made up a whopping 60% of the company's Games and Network Services segment revenues.
