Sony Group Corporation is a Tokyo-based creative entertainment group spanning games, music, film and television, electronics, and imaging and sensing technologies, including PlayStation and Sony Pictures.
Sony Group Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo and founded there in 1946, is a creative entertainment group with a foundation in technology. Its stated purposes include managing the business portfolio, allocating capital, creating synergies across operating units, incubating new businesses, and investing in people and technology - functions carried out at group headquarters level rather than within any single operating segment.
The portfolio spans five segments: Game & Network Services, centred on the PlayStation platform; Music, which works with artists, songwriters, audiences and streaming platforms; Pictures, producing and distributing film and television entertainment; Entertainment, Technology & Services, covering consumer and professional electronics; and Imaging & Sensing Solutions, supplying imaging and sensing technologies for both consumer and professional use. Technical domains include imaging and sensing, network services, games and interactive entertainment, streaming platforms, and intellectual property development.
Group strategy emphasises extending the value of intellectual property across physical and digital spaces, and collaboration with creators, fans and partners. Sony describes itself as operating globally across entertainment and technology, and has evolved continuously across those fields since its founding. Its purpose is stated as filling the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology.
