NYSE: SONYSony Group Corp Statistics & Facts
Key Sony facts
- Founded
- 1946
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founders
- Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita
- IPO Date
- 1970-09-17
Sony Product Statistics
Sony Console Sales
What is Sony's most successful console?
PlayStation
102.4M
PlayStation 2
155M
PlayStation Portable
76.4M
PlayStation 3
87.4M
PlayStation 4
117M
PlayStation 5
21.7M
At nearly 160 million units, the PlayStation 2 is the highest selling console of all time. [1]
Date: Dec 21, 2018
Sony PS4 Sales
How many PS4 have been sold?
Sony sold 2 million PS4 units in 2021, down from 6.2 million in 2020. [2]
Last Accessed: Oct 10, 2022
Sony PS5 Sales
How many PS5 have been sold?
Sony PlayStation Game Sales
PlayStation stats showing worldwide game sales by console up to the PS3.
PlayStation
962M
PlayStation 2
1.54B
PlayStation Portable
331M
PlayStation 3
999.4M
Over 1.5 billion PS2 games have been sold worldwide. [2]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony PS4 Game Sales
How many PS4 games were sold?
276.1 million PS4 games were sold during Sony's fiscal year 2019. [2]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony Highest Grossing Movies
What is the highest grossing movie of all time from Sony?
Source:Box Office Mojo
Spider-Man: No Way Home
$1.92B
Spider-Man: Far From Home
$1.13B
Skyfall
$1.11B
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
$962.54M
Spider-Man 3
$894.98M
Spider-Man: Homecoming
$880.17M
With nearly $2 billion worldwide at the box office, Spider-Man: No Way Home is the highest grossing movie from Sony. [5]
Last Accessed: Oct 10, 2022
Sony Revenue Breakdown
Sony Revenue by Segment
Sony statistics breaking down the company's sales by segment.
Source:Sony
Game & Network Services
2.74T
Music
1.12T
Pictures
1.24T
Electronics Products & Solutions
2.34T
Imaging & Sensing Solutions
1.08T
Financial Services
1.53T
Sony made ¥2.74 trillion (about $18.82 billion) from its Game & Network Services segment within its fiscal year 2021. [3]
Date: Jun 28, 2022
Sony Game & Network Services Sales
Sony statistics breaking down sales within its G&NS segment.
Sony made ¥1.424 trillion (about $9.786 billion) from the sale of digital software and add-on content within its Game & Network Services segment in fiscal 2021. [3]
Date: Jun 28, 2022
Sony Music Revenue Breakdown
Breaking down how much Sony makes from music, including streaming.
Source:Sony
Recorded music - streaming
462.37B
Recorded music - other
206.41B
Music publishing
200.33B
Visual media and platform
231.42B
Sony made ¥462.368 billion (about $3.176 billion) from music streaming in its fiscal year 2021. [3]
Date: Jun 28, 2022
Sony Electronics Productions & Solutions Sales
Breaking down how much Sony makes from its Electronics Productions & Solutions segment.
Source:Sony
Televisions
858.84B
Audio and video
326.7B
Still and video cameras
414.9B
Mobile communications
365.86B
Other
331.58B
Sony made ¥858.837 billion (about $5.9 billion) from TV sales in its fiscal year 2021. [3]
Date: Jun 28, 2022
Sony Expense Statistics
Sony Employee Statistics
Sony Miscellaneous Stats & Facts
Sony's PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling console in U.S. history. [13]
Date: Apr 16, 2021
The Sony Corporation was called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. until 1958. [14]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony was the first Japanese company to be traded on the NYSE. [14]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony launched the first CD player in 1982. [14]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony launched the first portable CD player in 1984. [14]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker. It didn't function as intended and ultimately failed. [15]
Date: Aug 22, 2015
Sony released the first OLED TV in 2007. [16]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony was the first company to launch a digital camera that supported a memory stick. [17]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony released the first consumer-use digital camcorder in 2004. [18]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony acquired streaming platform Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion in 2021. [19]
Date: Aug 9, 2021
Sources
1.
Guinness World Records
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2018/12/top-10-best-selling-videogame-consoles-551938Date: Dec 21, 2018
2.
Sony Interactive Entertainment
https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/data.htmlLast Accessed: Oct 10, 2022
3.
Sony FY2021 Annual Report
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/FY2021_20F_PDF.pdfDate: Jun 28, 2022
4.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/corporatereport/CorporateReport2022_E.pdfDate: Aug 26, 2022
5.
Box Office Mojo
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10872600/?ref_=bo_cso_table_6Last Accessed: Oct 10, 2022
6.
Deadline
https://deadline.com/2022/01/domestic-box-office-2021-marketshare-disney-sony-1234904531/Date: Jan 4, 2022
7.
8.
The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/15/23306068/microsoft-xbox-one-sales-lifetime-versus-ps4-salesDate: Aug 15, 2022
9.
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-19-fi-22750-story.htmlDate: Nov 19, 1987
10.
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-28-mn-361-story.htmlDate: Sep 28, 1989
11.
12.
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/sony-buys-emi-music-publishing-for-us19bnDate: May 22, 2018
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GSMArena
https://www.gsmarena.com/it_all_began_with_a_failed_rice_cooker__a_glimpse_at_sonys_history-blog-13661.phpDate: Aug 22, 2015
16.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-c.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
17.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-g.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
18.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-f.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
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