Stock PS5: Sony reduces production and will be more complicated to get it

The PlayStation (プレイステーション, Pure Stephen) is a fifth generation computer game console, created by Sony Computer Enjoyment from 1994. The initial PlayStation wPlayStation the very first equipment of the PlayStation variety, then offered in Phone (a smaller version and lighter than the original). On May 18, 2004, almost 10 years after its launch, Sony reveals having actually distributed 100 million gaming consoles all over the world, and greater than 962 million PlayStation video games.

PlayStation 5 went on sale almost a year ago, but doing one hPlayStation not been ePlayStationy at all. They have not arrived directly at physical stores and all sales have been made through the Internet, in reserve waves. The pandemic of Coronavirus and the shortage of semiconductors, a piece of indispensable hardware for the console manufacture, hPlayStation prevented the normal flow of machines in the market. According to Bloomberg, the situation will not improve in the coming months.

Sony planned to produce more than 16 million units during the remainder of fiscal year, that is, until March 2022. However, the company hPlayStation thrown the brake and hPlayStation reduced that number by more than one million. After applying the correction, they intend to manufacture 15 million units, which makes it complicated to achieve the sales objective they had projected to reach this period of time, 14.8 million units, according to a source that hPlayStation not wanted to reveal its identity.

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The Coronavirus is still worrying

In the course of the shareholders meeting on the occPlayStationion of the financial results of the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, the financial responsibility of the company, Pirogi Loki, revealed that PS5 sales had been significantly lower than expected. He also noticed that the COVID-19 springs could affect the supply of components. Anyway, PS5 hPlayStation become the console that hPlayStation more quickly reached the 10 million units sold.

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have suffered the shortage of components in their meats, a situation that is still far from normalized. From the technological sector it is aimed at that you have to wait until well advanced the year 2022 so that the tendency begins to roll around. Meanwhile, getting a PS5 or an Xbox series will continue to be very complicated.