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  • Sony Sells 18.5 Million PS5 Items in FY 2024, Analysts Say GTA 6 Delay to Impression Gross sales in 2025

    Sony Group provided an underwhelming forecast for the yr forward, with the burden of US tariffs wiping out expectations for a rise in working revenue. 

    The entertainment-focused group mentioned on Wednesday that it sees a JPY 100 billion ($700 million or roughly Rs. 5,975 crore) impression from US levies within the yr to March and expects an working revenue of ¥1.28 trillion (roughly Rs. 74,353 crore). Even with out the tariffs, Sony’s projection falls shy of the common analyst estimate of ¥1.5 trillion (roughly Rs. 87,126 crore) and is actually flat in comparison with the yr concluded in March 2025.

    The brand new outlook got here alongside the announcement of a share buyback of as a lot as ¥250 billion (roughly Rs. 14,521 crore) and the timeline for a partial spinoff of Sony’s monetary unit. Sony mentioned it plans to listing the monetary operation on September 29 and can begin to deal with it as a discontinued enterprise in its accounting from the present quarter.

    Shares of Sony prolonged their positive factors, rising as a lot as 4.5 % after the report. Buybacks are hovering in Japan as firms which have been hoarding money for years come underneath rising strain to elevate capital effectivity and increase shareholder returns. 

    Over the primary three months of this yr, Sony reported better-than-expected working earnings of JPY 203.7 billion (roughly Rs. 11,836 crore). The corporate offered 18.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles within the yr to March, following 20.8 million within the yr earlier.

    Sony’s new Chief Govt Officer Hiroki Totoki’s first activity is to navigate the leisure group although a brand new period of a tariffs-wielding US. The US includes the majority of PlayStation 5 gross sales, which is usually produced in . Sony raised the console’s worth in Europe, Australia and New Zealand final month, leaving questions on potential worth hikes within the US ought to tariffs change into a relentless.

    Increased costs would sluggish momentum of the five-year-old {hardware}, particularly because it vies with rival Nintendo’s Change 2, which launches in June. The postponement of Rockstar Video games’s much-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI can also be weighing on PlayStation gross sales within the present fiscal yr.

    “The delay in GTA VI is an actual blow to the PS5,” mentioned David Cole, chief govt officer of US-based digital leisure analysis agency DFC Intelligence. “This was alleged to be the product that received many customers to get off the PS4 and on to a PS5.”

    Sony’s different operations are additionally underneath siege. The outlook for picture sensors, utilized in smartphones by everybody from Apple to Xiaomi, is  murky, with tariffs hitting handsets within the US. And President Donald Trump has prompt tariffs can also be positioned on films made exterior the US, simply as Sony is selling Japanese animated movies such because the Demon Slayer collection abroad.

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  • Rockstar Video games Stated to Be Engaged on GTA 4 PS5, Xbox Collection S/X Port That Might Launch This

    Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed from its unique Fall 2025 launch timeline to subsequent yr, however keen followers might get to play an older recreation from the collection in an all-new avatar. Rockstar Games could possibly be readying a Grand Theft Auto 4 port for current-generation consoles for launch in 2025. GTA 4 launched on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2008 and has not made its technique to PS5 and Xbox Collection S/X.

    Rockstar Reportedly Engaged on GTA 4 Port

    In line with a tipster, the acclaimed GTA title might lastly be ported to trendy platforms, with Rockstar eyeing a launch later this yr. The data comes from Tez2 on GTA boards (via Rockstar Video games information channel @videotechuk_ on X), who claimed the port was in growth at Rockstar.

    “Somebody at R* (Rockstar) hinted on the IV port, and by now it ought to’ve gone up a yr in growth,” the tipster mentioned in response to a question on GTA forums on Sunday. “We might find yourself seeing it drop later this yr. And it is another reason, along with current causes, the LCPP mod was taken down.”

    The tipster is referring to Rockstar taking down the Liberty Metropolis Preservation Challenge mod earlier this yr. The favored mod introduced a playable model of GTA 4’s Liberty Metropolis map to Grand Theft Auto 5.

    The takedown of the Liberty Metropolis mod in GTA 5 has additionally fuelled hypothesis that Rockstar’s model of New York Metropolis might make an look in GTA 6, particularly after the second trailer of the sport revealed a number of hyperlinks to Liberty Metropolis current within the subsequent Grand Theft Auto. One in every of GTA 6’s protgonist, Lucia, is confirmed to be from Liberty Metropolis, and Liberty Metropolis license plates might be seen on a number of automobiles within the second GTA 6 trailer.

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    Grand Theft Auto 4 is about in Liberty Metropolis
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    Max Payne Remakes

    Along with a GTA 4 port/remaster for contemporary platforms, in his submit, Tez2 additionally claimed that Rockstar might nonetheless be planning on doing a Max Payne 3 port, which might arrive as a part of a bundle or a “Definitive Version”, alongside remakes for each Max Payne 1 and a couple of.

    Rockstar has not shared its plans for potential Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne remasters or remakes. The studio did launch Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in 2021, a compilation that remasters three traditional GTA titles for contemporary platforms.

    Grand Theft Auto 4 launched in 2008 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and acquired widespread important acclaim. It’s thought-about one of many biggest video games of all time and has lengthy been requested by followers to be remastered for contemporary consoles. The sport additionally obtained two main expansions packs, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, which characteristic new protagonists and tales. A remastered model of GTA 4 might bundle each story expansions right into a single plackage with the bottom recreation, similar to the Full Version of the sport on PC.