Taking this into account, we will continue to consider medium to long-term investments in increased production capacity to further expand our image sensor market share. In the automotive sensor business, we expect to double sales in the current fiscal year compared to the previous fiscal year, and we expect the sales to continue to grow in a high level of the next fiscal year as well. Last is a Financial Service segment, FY ’22 Q3 financial service revenue decreased significant 24% year-in-year to Â¥359 billion mainly due to deterioration in the net gains and losses on investments in this separate accounts. At Sony Life Insurance, operating income increased a significant Â¥19.1 billion year-on-year to Â¥54.3 billion primarily due to a reveal reversal of policy of reserves at Sony Life, resulting from the rise in interest rates during the quarter.
Sony Life’s new policy amount in force increased 57% year-in-year due to growth in our corporate business, and strong sales, mainly of the new individual variable annuity , there’s no change in the previous forecast. Next fiscal year will be the fiscal year of the fourth midterm range, mid-range plan, and it will be an important fiscal year where we establish a next mid-range plan. I believe that the most important theme in the next mid-range plan is a Sony Group strategy for the further growth beyond the current tough economic cycle. And our next fiscal year, we anticipate that we will need to operate a business in the face of headwinds while each business will focus on responding quickly and decisively to the changes it faces. We also will steadily lay the foundation for the future.
We plan to further evolve the diversity of our businesses and human resources, which are our strengths, enhance resilience of our business portfolio, and take on the challenges of the creating new value in the growth markets. That concludes my remarks.
Operator: Now we’d like to move on to Q&A session. As we explained at the outset, first we’ll be having Q&A session from investors analyst, and from about a quarter after five will be entertaining questions from the media. Those of you who have registered for asking question in advance, please connect the dial, the designating number and press asterisk followed by one. Those of you have question in the room, please raise your hand and then wait until the microphone is brought to you. Today because the time is limited, I’d like to ask you to limit your question to one per person. Now, those of you, if you have any question, please indicate now online participant, BofA Securities, Hirakawa-san, please.
Hirakawa-san: Thank you very much. Hirakawa from BofA Securities. About PS5 question. PS5, 7.1 million units has increased significantly, as a market consensus is about 7.5 million, 7.1 million. If you can produce more, you could have sold more, or the demand was about this level. In the 3Q, you have exceeding PS4, so what is the current situation of PS5?
Naomi Matsuoka: Thank you for your question. I would like to respond to your question. Sales unit of 7.1 million units is not a bad figure at all. However, the production and distribution problem continued. So the products are not delivered to the customers sufficiently, distribution channel at the shop front, the products are not delivered yet sufficiently. So we need to streamline the operation and so that, the units will be delivered to the customers as promptly as possible. Therefore, the momentum of demand, we are not concerned rather, we have to make sure that we can solidify the operation and we can deliver as many units as possible as quickly as possible. That’s all. Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. Thank you for your question. Let’s go to the next question, and once again from online, Morgan Stanley, .
