What has Sony said about PS5 shortage?

Sony is said to be having trouble with logistics as well as the supply of components, as the world grapples with an unprecedented chip shortage. Bloomberg’s report says that component shipments aren’t always arriving on time, and varying levels of vaccine rollout have complicated operations at production bases.

Why is there still a shortage of PS5?

The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S have been plagued by supply shortages since they released at the end of last year, and the problem is rooted in a mixture of chip shortages and logistics issues caused by the pandemic. The word from PlayStation and Xbox on console shortages hasn’t been positive.

Is PS5 making more consoles?

While Sony may be targeting a strong generation, the company has confirmed that it expects shortages of the PS5 to continue until 2022. Since both the PS5 and Xbox Series X went on sale, many units were picked up by scalper groups, with over 60,000 consoles being resold in November 2020 alone.

Why can’t Sony keep up with demand?

Sony is having so much trouble meeting demand for the PS5 in part due to a global shortage in components such as semiconductors.

Will Sony be making more PS5?

Sony’s manufacturing partners expect the PlayStation 5 to remain in tight supply through 2022 and said that producing enough units to achieve the company’s target of 22.6 million sales in the next fiscal year will be challenging.

How many PS5 consoles will there be?

The revised figure would be well above what Sony was said to have been originally planning for the PS5 launch. As of this April, Sony was reportedly expecting to produce 5 to 6 million consoles by the end of March, which would have been fewer than it made for the PS4 launch in 2013.

Will Sony hit its 15 million PS5 sales target this year?

It means that Sony isn’t reducing output due to problems with the PS5 SoC and therefore should hit what’s thought to be a 15 million console production target by the end of the fiscal year. That’s good news for anyone planning to pick up a PS5 over the holiday period.

Did Sony change the production number for the PlayStation 5?

“We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5 since the start of mass production.” The original report, published by Bloomberg, said the company was reducing its launch production by nearly half.

How long will the PlayStation 5 be in demand?

Harding-Rolls estimates that demand will continue to outstrip Sony’s ability to supply the PlayStation 5 “for at least a few months into 2021.”