Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Video games |
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Founded | April 1, 2016 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Hiroki Totoki (Chairman) Hideaki Nishino (CEO, Platform Business Group) Hermen Hulst (CEO, Studio Business Group) |
Products | PlayStation video game consoles |
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Revenue | US$29.8 billion[1] (FY2023) |
US$2.00 billion (FY2023) | |
Number of employees | 12,700[2] (2023) |
Parent | Sony Group Corporation |
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Website | sonyinteractive |
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony. Jointly established by two subsidiaries in 2016, it primarily operates the PlayStation brand of video game consoles and products. It is also the world's largest company in the video game industry based on its equity investments.
In 1993, Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in Tokyo, which released the video game console PlayStation in Japan the following year and subsequently in the United States and Europe the year after. It founded the branches Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) in May 1995 (in Foster City, California) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) in July 1995 (in Liverpool). In 2010, it underwent a corporate split and established Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI), which provided gaming-related services through the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network, including the sale of game titles and content on the PlayStation Store, as well as offering PlayStation Plus. In 2016, both companies jointly established Sony Interactive Entertainment, with its headquarters located in San Mateo, California, U.S.[3]