Sony ships almost six times as many consoles as Nintendo

Sony has delivered nearly six times as many consoles as Nintendo in recent months. This can be concluded from the quarterly figures of both manufacturers. Sony delivered 3.5 million consoles, Nintendo came to 600,000.

This puts deliveries of PlayStation consoles more than three times higher than the same period a year ago, when many gamers were looking forward to the release of the PS4. Compared to the winter months, when Sony delivered 3.7 million consoles, the number actually decreased. Sony doesn’t split sales to PS4 and older generations. Nintendo does: 510,000 of the 600,000 were Wii Us.

The PlayStation business is the only branch where Sony recorded a significant increase in sales. The group saw shipments of its handhelds, presumably almost exclusively PS Vita variants, drop by 6 percent to 750,000; Nintendo sold 1.4 million units of its DS handhelds during the same period. However, the large decline in Vita sales last year seems to have come to an end: there were periods in which sales halved compared to the same period the year before.

Sony’s smartphone shipments contracted for the first time in several years, by 2 percent to 9.4 million units. Sony’s Xperia smartphones struggled with disappointing sales of midrange models, such as the Xperia M2. With that number of deliveries, Sony is far from the dream place in the top five of smartphone manufacturers: all companies in that top five delivered at least 15 million devices in three months. In addition, many of the competitors are seeing strong deliveries, including Huawei, Xiaomi, ZTE and LG.

As a group, Sony booked a turnover of more than 13 billion euros, the profit amounted to around 200 million euros. Both are better than in the same period a year ago.