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CTOnews.com, May 24 (Xinhua)-- Sony plans to secure an additional $8 billion (currently about 56.48 billion yuan) investment to actively expand the entertainment industry, according to a recent Financial Times report.

According to the financial results released by Sony Group, there are still $5.1 billion in acquisition funds available this fiscal year. It is reported that the money comes from Sony's three-year investment budget of 2 trillion yen in 2021, with a balance of 700 billion yen, or about 5.1 billion US dollars, plus this additional investment of 8 billion US dollars. the total amount of money available for acquisitions amounts to $13.1 billion (currently about 92.486 billion yuan). More investment planned by Sony will help it gain greater market share and influence in the entertainment industry.

▲ Picture Source Sony China in addition, Sony Group CEO 10-hour Hiroki said that integration within the industry has been going on, so Sony can not be left behind. Sony has already acquired companies such as Bungie, Housemarque and Blue Dot.

At today's Sony 2023 business presentation, SIE CEO Jim Lane brought some data related to PlayStation:

PS5's net sales for fiscal year 2022 are 3.645 trillion yen (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 185.895 billion yuan).

On the hardware side, PS5 sold 6.6 million and 5 million units in the third and fourth quarters of last year, respectively.

In terms of user consumption power, the average expenditure of a PS4 user is $479 (currently about 3382 yuan) and PS5 is $622 (currently about 4391 yuan). Of this, accessories consumption increased by 60%, subscription consumption increased by 52%, extra content consumption increased by 210%, and game body consumption decreased by 10%.

On PS + subscriptions, the duration of the second and third games is more than 1 billion hours, the second class members are more than 8 million, accounting for 17% of the total, and the third class members are 6.1 million, accounting for 13% of the total.

PS VR2 sold about 600000 units in the first six weeks.

On the PC side, Marvel Spider-Man HD sold 1.5 million copies and Survivor 1 sold 368000 copies.

▲ Picture Source Sony 2023 Business presentation

▲ Picture Source Sony 2023 Business presentation

▲ Picture Source Sony 2023 Business presentation

▲ Picture Source Sony 2023 Business presentation

▲ Picture Source Sony 2023 Business statement when asked if PS+ would raise prices, Jim Ryan, president of SIE, said: "they have been evaluating their pricing and are very focused on maximizing the lifetime value of users."

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