News Sony Cuts PlayStation 5 Sales Estimates as Production Slows

[Admin]

The PS5 has been a wildly successful product for Sony, scalpers, and consumers alike. The Japanese company has however cut its sales estimates for the end of 2022, citing still ongoing logistics and materials issues that impact production.

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[dalek1234]

Interesting timing.

Sony announced PS5 on 12th of November 2020. This article dates 11th of November 2021. Sounds like Sony booked PS5 production for exactly a year from release, and when that contract was up, they tried to book more production, but AMD said: "no way, we are going to focus our production on EPYC, where our margins are nice a sweet....get back in line"

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Interesting timing.

Sony announced PS5 on 12th of November 2020. This article dates 11th of November 2021. Sounds like Sony booked PS5 production for exactly a year from release, and when that contract was up, they tried to book more production, but AMD said: "no way, we are going to focus our production on EPYC, where our margins are nice a sweet....get back in line"

Keep in mind, that AMD also has to provide chips for Microsoft's Series S and X consoles. So there could be some truth to supply shortages. Right now pretty much every mfg and retailer are hoarding as much as they can. It's even affecting Apple where they had to deal with supply constraints.