TOKYO — Japanese electronics and leisure firm Sony reported a 3% achieve in October-December revenue Thursday, and raised its full-year forecast.
Quarterly revenue totaled 373.7 billion yen ($2.4 billion), up from 364 billion yen.
Quarterly gross sales edged up 18% to 4.4 trillion yen ($29 billion), boosted by strong leads to its monetary providers, video games and music operations.
The Tokyo-based maker of the PlayStation online game machine reported a 21% achieve in April-December revenue at 943.9 billion yen ($6 billion), up from 781.6 billion.
9-month gross sales edged up 8% to 10.3 trillion yen ($67 billion).
Sony Corp. revised its full 12 months revenue projection upward to 1.08 trillion yen ($7 billion) from the 980 billion yen ($6.3 billion) annual revenue forecast it gave in November.
The most recent projection can be an 11% enchancment over the revenue it recorded the earlier fiscal 12 months.
The revision was brought on by a positive forex alternate fee, in addition to rising gross sales in community providers, in line with Sony.
Its PlayStation 5 recreation machine is now in its fifth 12 months since happening sale. Particulars on a attainable successor haven’t been introduced.
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