Sony Corp. today announced its consolidated results for the fiscal year ended March 31,2008 (FY07).
-New fiscal year records were achieved for consolidated sales and net income.
-Consolidated operating income for the current year was more than five times the prior year and the second highest in Sony´s history.
-Sony plans to increase its regular annual dividend by ¥15 to ¥40 and to issue a special cash dividend of ¥10 per share,which would result in a total annual dividend of ¥50 (FY08)
Sony Corp.-- Consolidated Financial Results (FY07)
Operating revenue rose 6.9% to $88.71 billion
Operating income rose 421.9% to $3.74 billion
Net income increased 192.4 % to $3.69 billion
Game-- Financial Results (FY07)
Operating revenue rose 26.3% to $12.84 billion
Operating loss decreased from $1.97 billion to $1.24 billion
The significant decrease in operating loss in the current fiscal year was due to a decrease in operating loss of the PS3 business as a result succesful PS3 hardware cost reductions and increase of sales of PS3 software as well as the strong performance of the PS3 business.According to Game, profit was recorded in the second half of FY07.
(FY06***FY07)
Worldwide hardware unit sales (Unit:Million)
PS2: 14.91***13.73
PS3: 3.57***9.24
PSP: 9.77***13.89
Worldwide software unit sales (Unit:Million)
PS2: 193.6***154
PS3: 13.4***57.9
PSP: 54.9***55.5
(Q4FY06***Q4FY07)
Worldwide hardware unit sales (Unit:Million)
PS2: 2.42***2.35
PS3: 1.91***2.32
PSP: 1.63***3.41
Worldwide software unit sales (Unit:Million)
PS2: 35.1***24
PS3: 8.1***16.9
PSP: 11.1***14.7
LTD :Hardware&Software (Unit:Million):
PS2: 131.62&1394
PS3: 12.81& 71.3
PSP: 39.28&157.04
Beggining with the quarter ended June 30,2007,the method of reporting hardware and software sales has been changed from production shipments to recorded sales.