Sophie Knight

Sony hopes for PlayStation profit boost as smartphones struggle

Sony has sold 10.3 million PS4 consoles as of September 6, almost double the sales of technology giant Microsoft's XBox One.

With full-year sales hitting 51.8 billion yen last year, Line was the highest-grossing non-game app of 2013.

After releasing the PlayStation 4 on November 29, the company had said it hoped to sell 5 million units by the end of March.

The company released the PlayStation 4 on November 29 in the United States. Japan is the last country scheduled to handle the device.

Line Corp's app, which now has 340 million users and targets 500 million this year, ranked 6th in terms of total downloads.