Unfortunately the news is official and many already suspected that the USA (AND MOST OF THE WORLD ECONOMICS) are officially in a recession and companies are in the need to answer inflation, accordingly with raising prices to sustain revenues added to the mix the semiconductor shortage is still a reality.

Apparently, some Sony investors want the Japanese to do the same for its products, including one of his principal businesses now with the Playstation 5 console and related hardware.

This is in response as the Playstation business for the Game & Network Services division Q1 2023 suffered a drop in sales and operating income following a significant decline in software sales, shipping only 2.4 million PS5 units during the three months from April 1 to June 30 which was surprisingly lower than expected.

While Sony has maintained that expectation to close the fiscal year 2023 with 18 million PS5 units shipped, Meta's surprisingly rising Oculus Quest 2's price had surely put strength in investors' pressure that Sony do the same as it has already done with other of their electronics products in Japan.

As for now, Sony has avoided discussing the possibility at their investor conference but many analysts believe that Sony will have no choice unless things in the world turn around soon.

Via VGC