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Sony says PS5 stock shortages will stabilise, and sales return to PS4-era momentum by 2024
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
Would be great if they had a queue like EVGA with GPUs or Steam with the Deck. The way they do it now with the email invitation and bouncing timer on the queue is lame. Who has time for that?
*edit* Waited an hour in queue just to get to the store an every console is sold out. What a joke.
*edit* Waited an hour in queue just to get to the store an every console is sold out. What a joke.
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
They seem confident they have solved the supply issues. Let's hope!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
This seems to have something to do with it to offload some strain nodes. Same timeframe.
TSMC and Sony officially create partnership to build $7 billion fab in Japan
The new fab is expected to start producing chips with the 22 and 28nm processes by 2024.
www.zdnet.com
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Patrick S.
Banned
Ugh, at that point the console will have passed 60% of its life cycle...
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Really this is the reason why Sony puts its games on PC
TheGodfather07
Member
They expect to make up the deficit though and then pass the PS4 in the Same tineframe. Looks like 2023 and 2024 are going to be massive if they can hit those targets.
SkylineRKR
Member
I can see this happening, gaming has grown over the last 10 years. I think PS5 will have no problems outselling PS4, as long as the supply is there.
ReBurn
Gold Member
I hope they do. It's good kit.
MasterCornholio
Member
Depends what you mean. I don't believe they have any yield issues with the SOC it's just that the manufacturer isn't able to produce enough wafers. Same goes for other firms such as Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. Even Nintendo to a certain extent.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
So how many PS4s sold per quarter in its 3 fiscal year? It looks like the PS5 will be equaling that.
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
MastaKiiLA
Member
Whatever. I will buy a PS5 as soon as I can buy a digital edition direct from the factory, So, I'll be waiting for another year, at least.
NeoGiffer
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Varteras
Gold Member
It isn't currently and hasn't been for a little bit now. But that's what Sony is showing here. The PS5 will overtake PS4 in sales rate during 2024. They are fully expecting the PS5 to outsell PS4. If that graph is any kind of accurate for how they expect the rates to look, that upward trend would suggest PS5 could contend with the PS2 for Sony's best selling console. Which might not be terribly surprising. Another slide Sony showed had the PS5 selling an average of about 80,000 units in a little over 80 minutes when stock hits. Compared to the PS4 at the same time in its life where it took 9 days to sell 80,000. And those are just US figures, as far as I know.
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Hawking Radiation
Member
Just bought a galactic purple Dual Sense 5 controller for PC last night so I'll keep pretending I'm playing PS5 games while on PC.
Hope the illusion can last for 2 years.
Hope the illusion can last for 2 years.
ReBurn
Gold Member
I have one. Such a pretty controller.
Goalus
Member
Yes, indeed.
DeepEnigma
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CosmicComet
Member
The PS5 honestly needs to last 10 years with how much of a false start its first two years was.
Venom Snake
Gold Member
I mean, we live in times of drastic shifts in demand, shortages of supplies and human resources. Supply chains adapt very slowly, it's not something that can be changed overnight, sadly.
thebigmanjosh
Gold Member
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think it's saying FY24 so units should be more readily available by mid-2023
Captain Toad
Banned
No it won't. I'll bet you this is a 10 year console cycle, especially with this delayed start.
Patrick S.
Banned
Absolutely not! I want a PS6 with better ray tracing at 60+ fps in all games, not a 2070 Super equivalent that holds back PC games for ten years...
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DukeNukem00
Banned
Negative. They ported god of war over 2 years, so it started before ps5 even released
"Matt DeWald: We’ve sold almost 20 million, like 19.5 million copies on console, but it’s surprising to hear that there are still people out there that have never played it. And if they haven’t played it on console by now, they’re probably not going to play it on console. So this gives them an opportunity to play it on a platform they might play.
How much insight do you guys have into how Sony decided that the PC was a market they wanted to push this on to? Was that something you were championing early on?
Barlog: I think it was the collective of studios all over saying this is a really good idea. We should be looking into this. Eventually, I think it reached that tipping point. When we had sent so many suggestion box suggestions that they were like, “I’m tired of hearing all this. Fine, we’ll do this.” It’s a process. We’re still figuring it out as a company and as individual studios how to do this and what the process and strategy will be."
Gobjuduck
Banned
2024 is far away. PS4 was best by midgen (2017-2018), I dont think that momentum will jump ahead of the ps4. Xbox and PC are going to eat up a good portion of those consumers.
Maybe a Pro model is in the works, and it will make for that jump. But announcing a pro early could affect sales of the base model.
Maybe a Pro model is in the works, and it will make for that jump. But announcing a pro early could affect sales of the base model.
Nickolaidas
Member
So ... four years after the console was released.
Bra-fucking-vo.
Bra-fucking-vo.
Crayon
Member
This gen is weird. ps would have been smashing records if there were enough to buy. It's been awhile and people still can't get them. There's hardly any dedicated games. I find I'm happy with mine as a sort of luxury upgrade to my ps4. If you are shopping for a console, ps4 is still in play. It's like a living classic console, at least $100 cheaper and plays 98% of the games. It's louder and has longer loading times but hey you can actually get one.
ps5 is just a nicer...thing. Crazy looking thing. All those crossgen games really do run and look better. It's quiet. The front end is snappy. The shorter loading times are a treat. Overall it's like great as a luxury but not an essential system at all. Could still become one, though. There are a few ways for the generation end up quite long. If those mid gens coming are $600+ then that will be expected to carry the generation a long time. They could even dare to put out another upgrade console. Pro-Pro. We'd be in for 10+ years with series s as the baseline. lol.
ps5 is just a nicer...thing. Crazy looking thing. All those crossgen games really do run and look better. It's quiet. The front end is snappy. The shorter loading times are a treat. Overall it's like great as a luxury but not an essential system at all. Could still become one, though. There are a few ways for the generation end up quite long. If those mid gens coming are $600+ then that will be expected to carry the generation a long time. They could even dare to put out another upgrade console. Pro-Pro. We'd be in for 10+ years with series s as the baseline. lol.
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GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
The stock shortages have crippled PS5's momentum. It's not going to be the hot new item in 2024.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
Possible, but PS4 in general is one of the most successful consoles in history, so repeating that or close to it is already a massive success. I think we should expect a spike in sales when they start to flood the market with them with their lucrative lineup of games. I also expect PS5 sales will continue to be solid even through PS6 as the transition/crossgen this time around would be much better than PS4/PS5 thanks to the SSD and ultra fast I/O system.
ParaSeoul
Member
tusharngf
Member
not with limited stock.If people want a PS5,they'll get a PS5.
ParaSeoul
Member
So they wait. Not like the Series X is readily available as well. And people who play on consoles will stick to them.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
I mean, by 2024 is the worst case scenario. It's during their fiscal year that starts in march 2023 and ends in march 2024. Sounds reasonable.
Probably all of these. They also mentioned they have been making deals with multiple manufacturers so that if one fails, they will always have multiple back up plans, basically. An internal revision is also happening as well, like it always does each gen.
ParaSeoul
Member
I can see a slim model happening along the line. Pro model? Probably not.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
It's gonna be a 10 year generation, my friend.
bushwookie
Banned
I'd call you a realist. According to the graph, at no point was the PS5 significantly tracking ahead of the PS4. At this point it's now tracking significantly behind the PS4 though.
They can draw whatever squiggly line they want from there as a projection. Doesn't mean it's sales will follow it. With PC now seeing more and more of it's exclusives, and Xbox eating into it's marketshare. What data points to their projection actually happening? I can't think of any, but I could've missed something.
I thought you were kidding..... Finally got an E-Mail invite yesterday and thought i will 100% get one if i'm fast enough. Waited 20 minutes for a countdown and then it said "It's you turn in more than one hour". Then it jumped to 6,7,8,6,1 and when i came in i couldn't add anything to the basket. 2 minutes later it said sold out. 15 minutes after it started.
What a total shit show. How bad can you make a shopping experience? Sony: Yes
bushwookie
Banned
I'm not so sure. It's definitely possible, but if Xbox continues to eat marketshare, MS would probably move forward at around 8 years.
So maybe Playstation is gonna have a 10 year generation?
