Sony Pictures Entertainment posted a sales decline for the June quarter, offset by growth at Crunchyroll, while Sony’s music segment saw revenue increase 21%. The PlayStation games unit had flat sales for the period and a 37% increase in operating income drive by U.S. tariff refunds.
Overall for the quarter, Sony’s Q1 of fiscal 2026, the company posted revenue of 2.837 trillion yen ($17.8 billion), up 8%, and net income of 342.2 billion yen ($2.15 billion), up 32%.
For the quarter, streaming revenue growth rates on a U.S. dollar basis were up 10% year-on-year for recorded music and up 8% for music publishing.
Regarding the recent Kumamoto earthquake, Sony said it has several semiconductor facilities located in Kumamoto prefecture and neighboring prefectures. “While all these facilities were affected by the earthquake, there were no major casualties,” the company said. Sony’s production sites in Nagasaki, Oita and Kagoshima had no significant damage to buildings or equipment and production has resumed. The company said, “As it is currently difficult to reasonably estimate the financial impact of this earthquake, the impact has not been incorporated into the full-year results forecast we will show today.”