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Sony sells 14.8 million PS4s in FY 2014 but not a lot of smart phones

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Sony makes some excellent electronics. Obviously the PS4 is fantastic, but their phones are arguably the best devices you can get if you like Android. Unfortunately for them, while the gaming division is climbing, their phone division is bringing down the whole company.

Being successful in the current market is really difficult, but Sony has blown everyone away with sales of the PS4. According to their announcement, they’ve sold 14.8 million PS4 units during the fiscal year of 2014 as well as 3.3 million portable consoles. So no, the Vita isn’t doing too well, but the PS4 more than compensates for it.

Unfortunately, as an overal company, Sony is struggling. It lost 126 billion yen, despite the fact that the Game and Network Services division brought in a positive result by 48.1 billion yen. Where is the setback? Apparently in the mobile division.

It was by far the company’s biggest black mark in fiscal 2014, making an operating loss of 217.6 billion yen following a ¥176 billion ($1.47 billion) impairment charge from the smartphone and tablet business, and restructuring costs from the sale of the VAIO PC unit. While things shouldn’t get that bad next year, mobile is still the only core division that Sony is expecting to lose money, forecasting a 7.1 percent slip in revenue and an operating loss of 39 billion yen.

It’s hard to make money in the mobile handset space these days unless you’re Apple. I feel bad for Sony – it’s hard to have such great devices and still not make money from them. At least the gaming side of things is going well. How much longer until they sell off the mobile division? Sad sad days for Android fans.

Last Updated: April 30, 2015

22 Comments

  1. Blood Emperor Trevor

    April 30, 2015 at 15:38

    Can we get a HAI YEAH!

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  2. Hammersteyn

    April 30, 2015 at 15:41

    Maybe if their damn phones were cheaper than the PS4s more people would buy them? I mean the Z3 costs more than three times that of a PS Vita….

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    • Aries

      April 30, 2015 at 20:31

      maybe they should try selling games on it, like the vita and then the price can come down, oh wait they do do that, no android over here,still stuck on a blackberry

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    • Marc O Polo

      May 3, 2015 at 11:15

      Have you seen the cash price for the Samsung s6 edge… It’s going for like R15 000, frikken madness

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      • Hammersteyn

        May 4, 2015 at 07:25

        Agreed.

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  3. Admiral Chief

    April 30, 2015 at 15:42

    That is becoz they have crappy phones!

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    • Hammersteyn

      April 30, 2015 at 15:43

      I don’t think the Z3 is crappy. But I’m not gonna shell out R9000 for it. And I done with R400+ cell phone contracts.

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      • Admiral Chief

        April 30, 2015 at 15:46

        As am I. Keeping my S4, gonna root it as soon as warranty expires and then I’m set for the future. NO WAY going to pay R600-R700 for a crappy contract

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        • Hammersteyn

          April 30, 2015 at 15:48

          People think it’s a status symbol. I’ve seen people in the pub with a Galaxy S5 but they drive a Tazz for instance.

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          • Admiral Chief

            April 30, 2015 at 15:50

            HAHA dat fail

          • Ir0nseraph

            April 30, 2015 at 15:52

            It’s a damn shame , I love my Z3 it’s a great phone , luckily there is many good android phones in the market to fill the gap if they disappear.

          • Hammersteyn

            April 30, 2015 at 15:53

            But how does your Tazz drive? 😛

          • Ir0nseraph

            April 30, 2015 at 15:54

            XD

          • FoxOneZA

            May 1, 2015 at 08:54

            Hahahhahaha!

        • chimera_85

          April 30, 2015 at 16:18

          Still better than samsung

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  4. Joe Black

    April 30, 2015 at 16:07

    Surprising really. The Z3 is really great.

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  5. chimera_85

    April 30, 2015 at 16:17

    Doesn’t make sense cos their phones are the best android devices you can find imo (I don’t even like android btw) but people seem to love samsung for some weird reason.

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    • Jivesh Hanoomaun

      May 1, 2015 at 04:01

      Samsung is the iPhone of Android.

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      • konfab

        May 1, 2015 at 07:57

        That statement triggered me

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        • Jivesh Hanoomaun

          May 1, 2015 at 14:23

          Triggered you?

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  6. FoxOneZA

    May 1, 2015 at 08:58

    “It’s hard to make money in the mobile handset space these days unless you’re Apple” << Samsung, LG and Huawei are pretty much turning over a profit in mobile 😉

    A few years back when Sony only had the PS3 + Vita on the market it was Android, a free OS, making them money. Now due to the huge success of the PS4 Sony has slacked on mobile and TV which was their bread and butter during the PS3 era.

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  7. 40 Insane Frogs

    May 1, 2015 at 23:54

    That Domination!

    Reply

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