Profit at Japanese electronics and entertainment

company Sony Corp. more than doubled in

the last quarter on healthy gains in its video

game sector, as people stayed home during the

pandemic, the company said this week.

Tokyo-based Sony reported a 459.6 billion yen

($4.4 billion) profit in July-September, up from

188 billion yen the previous year. Quarterly sales

at the maker of the PlayStation game machines,

Bravia TVs and Spider-Man movies inched down

slightly to 2.1 trillion yen ($20 billion).

Sony raised its forecast for the full fiscal year to

800 billion yen ($7.7 billion) from an earlier 510

billion yen ($4.9 billion).

SONY’S PROFITS

RISE AS

PANDEMIC HAS

PEOPLE PLAYING

GAMES