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Maybe you should take your own advice, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/297533/sony-sales-worldwide-by-business-segment/ for the latest available year there (2022) the business segment "Game and network services" is only around 26 billion out of 88 billion total.
The sale figures are a bit misleading as the different sections also have different costs (sales make games look more important).
The corporate reports are archived here, and the equivalent per-section breakdown is on page 37 of the 2023 report.
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/corporatereport/
When comparing operating revenue (i.e. profit) the breakdown is:
So it looks like they made a little more profit from music that year.
I stand by my point.