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Sony Returns Profit in Second Quarter as Revival Takes Hold

  • Focus on games, image sensors paying off for electronics maker
  • Raises forecast for PlayStation 4 sales on stronger demand

An attendee tries out the new Sony Project Morpheus virtual-reality headset in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Sony Corp. returned to profitability in the fiscal second quarter driven by gains in PlayStation 4 games, image sensors and cameras.

Net income was 33.6 billion yen ($278 million) in the quarter ended September, versus a 136 billion yen net loss a year earlier, Sony said Thursday. The result also beat estimates.