{"id":990170,"date":"2026-02-06T08:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990170"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:22:39","slug":"sony-hikes-guidance-on-strong-games-music-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/sony-hikes-guidance-on-strong-games-music-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony hikes guidance on strong games, music performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese giant Sony on Thursday hiked its full-year net profit forecast thanks to strong performances in its video games and music divisions. <\/p>\n<p>The firm expects net profit of 1.13 trillion yen ($7.2 billion) in the 2025-26 fiscal year, up from its previous projection of 1.05 trillion yen given in November, it said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>It also increased its revenue forecast to 12.3 trillion yen from 12.0 trillion yen and its operating profit projection to 1.54 trillion yen from 1.43 trillion yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese giant Sony on Thursday hiked its full-year net profit forecast thanks to strong performances in its video games and music divisions. The firm expects net profit of 1.13 trillion yen ($7.2 billion) in the 2025-26 fiscal year, up from its previous projection of 1.05 trillion yen given in November, it said in a statement. It also increased its revenue forecast to 12.3 trillion yen from 12.0 trillion yen and its operating profit projection to 1.54 trillion yen from 1.43 trillion yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}