Sony’s gaming division is proceeding to drive significant benefits for the organization even as the PlayStation 4 period slows down. The organization reported PlayStation-related income of 507 billion yen (~$4.9 billion) and a working benefit of 105 billion yen (~$1 billion) for its July-September quarter, respective upgrades of 52 and 40% on a similar period a year back.

With the PlayStation 5 set to dispatch in half a month, ordinarily, you’d expect a critical negative effect on Sony’s books for the past quarter as the organization slopes up assembling before it begins to acquire more income. Sony says that its benefits were hit by an expansion in costs, while income was diminished by an anticipated reduction in PS4 sales. Higher game software sales and PlayStation Plus subscriptions, notwithstanding, more than made up for the deficiency.

Sony’s enormous PS4 release for the quarter was the open-world samurai experience Ghost of Tsushima, which turned out in July and sold 2.4 million copies in its initial three days. Sony says it’s the quickest selling new IP on the platform.

Sony has now changed its entire year gaming figure upward marginally, hoping to make 2.6 trillion yen in income and 300 billion yen in benefit before the finish of March 31st. That’d be a 26 percent expansion in both income and benefit, which would be noteworthy for the first year of a console cycle.

Sony’s income is probably going to be restricted in the present moment by the quantity of PS5 consoles it’s ready to produce. In an interview with Reuters today, SIE boss Jim Ryan said there was “very considerable demand” for the gadget, which he says was preordered in the US a larger number of times in its initial 12 hours than the PS4 was in its initial 12 weeks. “It may well be that not everybody who wants to buy a PS5 on launch day will be able to find one.”