Japanese company Sony for the first time in eight years, has become the market leader in video game consoles. It even managed to get ahead of its main rival in the face of Nintendo.
According to the publication, at the end of the last fiscal year, Sony Computer Entertainment has implemented a total of 18.7 million copies of game systems. Sales of consoles Sony has increased largely due to the successful launch of the video game console PlayStation 4. Autumn 2013 it appeared for sale in a number of countries, including the United States and the end of March this year, has sold almost 7 million units.
Meanwhile, sales of Nintendo consoles for the reporting period fell by 31% to 16,310 copies. Accordingly, fell and sales of the portable Nintendo 3DS.
It should be noted that the last time Sony took first place in sales of consoles in 2005 year.
But at the same time, now game consoles continue to lose market position under the onslaught of smartphones and tablet computers. And now the game console manufacturers need to offer new services, for example, cloud gaming, in order to once again draw the attention of users.