The Sony Group announced that operating income for the current fiscal year will exceed the initial forecast and is expected to exceed 1 trillion yen for the first time due to strong sales of music distribution services and other services due to so-called nesting demand.
The Sony Group announced on the 28th that its six-month financial results up to last month showed that sales increased by 13.7% from the same period of the previous year to 4,626.2 billion yen, and operating profit, which indicates the profit of the main business, increased by 11.5% to 5985. At 100 million yen, both were record highs for this period.
This was mainly due to strong sales of music distribution services and home video game consoles, which increased due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and sales of smartphones increased.
In addition, the movie business, which had been delayed due to the spread of infection, is recovering, so we have revised our earnings forecast for the current fiscal year upward.
Operating income is expected to exceed 1 trillion yen for the first time, increasing 8.9% from the previous year to 1.4 trillion yen.
Hiroki Totoki, Vice President and CFO, said at an online interview, "Sales in the game field have increased significantly, but the shortage of semiconductors has also affected the production of game consoles. I will go. "