Sony (hereinafter referred to as Sony) announced the overall performance of fiscal year 2014 (the end of March 31, 2015).The financial report shows that Sony Group achieved sales of 8215.9 billion yen (US $ 68.466 billion) in fiscal 2014, an increase of 5.8%over the previous fiscal year.Operating profit of 68.5 billion yen (about 571 million US dollars), an increase of 158.7%year -on -year.The net loss was 126 billion yen (1.05 billion US dollars), a year -on -year narrowing 1.9%.

From the perspective of financial reports, the main factors of sales growth are: the impact of exchange rate changes, the significant growth of games and network service business brought by PS4 strong sales, and a significant increase in component business driven by image sensors.Among them, game and network services are the most increased. This part of sales increased by 33%year -on -year; component business sales increased by 23.9%year -on -year.The main reason for operating profits to increase significantly year -on -year is the significant improvement of component business, game and network service business, as well as home entertainment and audio business operations.Sony said that the improvement of operating profit is negatively represented by the mobile communications business, mainly due to the reputation of 176 billion yen ($ 1.467 billion) in the second quarter.

In addition, Sony also announced its performance expectations for fiscal year 2015 (the end of March 31, 2016).In fiscal 2015, Sony is expected to achieve sales of 7900 billion yen (about 66.36 billion US dollars), operating profit of 320 billion yen (about 2.688 billion US dollars), and a net profit of 140 billion yen (about 1.176 billion US dollars).