{"id":1614,"date":"2016-01-29T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/29\/sony-reports-big-jump-in-sales-thanks-to-playstation-4\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:18:36","slug":"sony-reports-big-jump-in-sales-thanks-to-playstation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/29\/sony-reports-big-jump-in-sales-thanks-to-playstation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony reports big jump in sales thanks to PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"17\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzI5LzcwLzE3LjEwYTMyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/8bb61b65\/08c\/17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Sony+reports+big+jump+in+sales+thanks+to+PlayStation+4&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F29%2Fsony-jump-sales-playstation-4%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F29%2Fsony-jump-sales-playstation-4%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Sony Corp. reported a 33.5% jump in quarterly profit as sales improved in its PlayStation 4 video game business.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based Sony kept its full-year profit projection unchanged Friday at 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion), which would be a reversal from red ink in the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/16\/playstation-4-media-player\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The PlayStation 4 is finally a proper home media center<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sony recorded a 120 billion yen ($1 billion) October-December profit. Sales for the fiscal third quarter edged up 0.5% to 2.58 trillion yen ($21.4 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Sony, which also makes Bravia TVs and Xperia mobile phones, has been undergoing a marathon restructuring to focus on more profitable operations. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/29\/sony-jump-sales-playstation-4\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/sony\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/earnings\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Earnings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/playstation-4\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Playstation 4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gaming\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gaming<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/pjiKwkEvprs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 Sony Corp. reported a 33.5% jump in quarterly profit as sales improved in its PlayStation 4 video game business. Tokyo-based Sony kept its full-year profit projection unchanged Friday at 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion), which would be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/29\/sony-reports-big-jump-in-sales-thanks-to-playstation-4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,1280,863,1281,857],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-earnings","tag-gaming","tag-playstation-4","tag-sony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}