Sony Reportedly Reduces PS5 Production Outlook by 1 Million - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 November 2021 / 2,568 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment is struggling to produce PlayStation 5 consoles as demand has far outstripped supply since the console launched a year ago. Bloomberg is now reporting Sony has reduced its PS5 production outlook for the current fiscal year.
The company has previously set a target a of over 16 million PS5 consoles produced by the end of March 2022. However, due to more shortages than originally expected the number has been cut down to around 15 million.
This will make it harder for Sony to reach its 14.8 million PS5 consoles sold by the end of March that much harder.
Sony Interactive Entertainment previously announced it had shipped 13.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of September 30, 2021. to compare, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 13.8 million units as of September 30, 2014. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 400,000.
VGChartz estimates have PS5 sell-through figures at 13.88 million units as of October 30.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Can't say I'm surprised by this news. Hopefully Sony is able to significantly increase production over the next year.
This is absolutely insane!
I didn't think a full year later it would be this difficult to still find next gen consoles but here we are.
Add in the news that it's going to be just as difficult going into 2022 and it makes what is going on even more absurd.
When was the last time we saw something like this? The Wii around Christmas back in the day? Even then I still think it was easier.
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It's crazy that PS5 practically only soft-launched yet. Still nowhere to be found, and the fact that it's still far from reaching feature parity compared to Xbox Series and even PS4 (in some cases even PS3), shows Sony is in no rush as well.
I expect PS5 to actually hard-launch in 2023. Which is totally bizarre.
If only enough people took the pandemic more seriously a year ago.
Guess there must be something going around. First Nintendo then Sony. Then the steam deck delay.
But honestly, there's probably a factory somewhere that had a breakdown and had to cancel some orders on a chip. And whatever it is must be in a few different devices. An HDMI output chip, USB, or whatever production line.
There's a worldwide shortage of shipping containers so that may have a major effect.
Oh ok. Yeah. Could be then.
It's crazy to me that a year later we are still dealing with this.
When did Sony increased their forecast to 16 million for FY2021??
