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 3
87.4M
PlayStation 4
113.5M
PlayStation VR
5M
PlayStation 5
50M
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 Retro Console 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
Skyfall
$1.14B
Spider-Man: Far From Home
$1.13B
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
$995.34M
Spider-Man 3
$894.98M
Spectre
$880.71M
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
3.64T
Music
1.38T
Pictures
1.37T
Electronics Products & Solutions
2.48T
Imaging & Sensing Solutions
1.4T
Financial Services
1.45T
Sony made ¥3.64 trillion (about $24.966 billion) from its Game & Network Services segment within its fiscal year 2022. [3]
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Sony Game & Network Services Sales
Sony statistics breaking down sales within its G&NS segment.
Sony made ¥1.523 trillion (about $10.433 billion) from selling digital games and DLC in its fiscal year 2022. [3]
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Sony Music Revenue Breakdown
How much money does Sony make from music?
Source:Sony
Recorded music - streaming
598.87B
Recorded music - other
286.27B
Music publishing
276.67B
Visual media and platform
203.01B
Sony made ¥598.87 billion (about $4.102 billion) from music streaming in its fiscal year 2022. [3]
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Sony Pictures Revenue Breakdown
Breaking down how much Sony makes from movies and TV shows.
Sony made ¥464.04 billion (about $3.179 billion) from movies, either licensed or released to theaters, in its fiscal year 2022. [3]
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Sony Electronics Productions & Solutions Sales
How much does Sony make from electronics like TVs, headphones, and cameras?
Source:Sony
Televisions
733.25B
Audio and video
391.61B
Still and video cameras
565.02B
Mobile communications
356.77B
Other
390.09B
Sony made ¥858.84 billion (about $5.023 billion) from TV sales in its fiscal year 2022. [3]
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Sony Expense Statistics
Sony Employee Statistics
Sony Miscellaneous Stats & Facts
Sony's PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling console in U.S. history. [14]
Date: Apr 16, 2021
The Sony Corporation was called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. until 1958. [15]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony was the first Japanese company to be traded on the NYSE. [15]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony launched the first CD player in 1982. [15]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony launched the first portable CD player in 1984. [15]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker. It didn't function as intended and ultimately failed. [16]
Date: Aug 22, 2015
Sony released the first OLED TV in 2007. [17]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony was the first company to launch a digital camera that supported a memory stick. [18]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony released the first consumer-use digital camcorder in 2004. [19]
Last Accessed: May 14, 2021
Sony acquired streaming platform Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion in 2021. [20]
Date: Aug 9, 2021
123 million people regularly use the PlayStation Network (PSN). [2]
Last Accessed: Jan 11, 2024
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: Jan 11, 2024
3.
Sony FY2022 Annual Report
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/FY2022_20F_PDF.pdfDate: Jun 20, 2023
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/2024/01/box-office-2023-marketshare-new-years-weekend-1235683633/Date: Jan 1, 2024
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
13.
Sony FY2021 Annual Report
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/FY2021_20F_PDF.pdfDate: Jun 28, 2022
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16.
GSMArena
https://www.gsmarena.com/it_all_began_with_a_failed_rice_cooker__a_glimpse_at_sonys_history-blog-13661.phpDate: Aug 22, 2015
17.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-c.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
18.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-g.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
19.
Sony
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-f.htmlLast Accessed: May 14, 2021
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