TOKYO, April 28 Reuters Sony Group Corp on Friday said PlayStation 5 sales will jump by six million units this business year, but forecast its profit will slip from a record high as weaker financial services sales offsets gains from gaming, music and movies.

The Japanese company said it expects operating profit in the year to March 31 to fall 3.2 to 1.17 trillion yen 8.65 billion, lower than an analysts39; average estimate of a 1.275 trillion yen profit, according to Refinitiv data.

The improved performance of its gaming unit, however, will come as a relief to the entertainment and electronics conglomerate after it struggled to make enough PlayStation 5 game consoles to meet demand during the COVID19 pandemic because of semiconductor supply chain disruptions.

We can now deliver PlayStation 5 to almost anywhere in the world without keeping our customers waiting, Sony Group President Hiroki Totoki said at a press briefing after the company announced its results.

Sony, which competes with Xbox maker Microsoft Corp and Switch provider Nintendo Co Ltd, said it expects to sell a record 25 million PlayStation 5 PS5 consoles this business year, up from 19.1 million in the previous 12 months and more than double the number it sold the year before that.

For this business year, the company forecast profit at its gaming and network unit to rise by 8 to 270 billion yen. It said it expects earnings at its music and pictures divisions to be slightly higher, with profits from…