Sony Sees Results of Restructuring With Strong Earnings<br />On Tuesday, the company, which has been shifting its focus onto small-scale products like camera sensors, consoles<br />and video games, reported sharp increases in revenue and net profit in the second quarter.<br />Sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 video games console and PlayStation VR, a virtual reality headset, helped drive the strong results.<br />Sony, the Japanese electronics maker that has been trying for years to ease its reliance on computers, televisions<br />and mobile phones, is finally seeing the results of its restructuring.<br />Sony’s earnings for the second quarter last year had been affected by earthquakes in Japan, which led to shortages of components for its camera unit.<br />That helped bolster net profit, which surged to 80.8 billion yen, or about $732 million, from 21.2 billion yen the year before.
