PS5: faced with the shortage, Sony is forced to produce more PS4

PS5: faced with the shortage, Sony is forced to produce more PS4

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When launching the PlayStation 5, in November 2020, many expected Sony to phase out its previous machine, the PS4, released seven years earlier. Nevertheless, the whole world has had to deal with a major crisis that has strongly affected the video game industry and supply chains, which recently forced Sony to take an important decision.

As reported by the Bloomberg site, the Japanese firm had to review its strategy vis-à-vis the PlayStation 4. If the company had a very precise idea on the quantity of consoles to produce, it did not have a other choice than to revise its forecasts upwards.



The PS5 and the PS4 will coexist longer than expected

For more than a year now, many players have tried to acquire a PS5. For those who have experienced it, it is sometimes a real way of the cross to hope to get their hands on the Holy Grail. From Sony's point of view, this lack of supply must be filled in order to keep players on the ecosystem and prevent them from giving in to the sirens of Microsoft and its Xbox Series X|S.

Therefore, the Japanese firm approached its assembly partners to let them know that PS4 production would continue throughout 2022. Initially, the manufacturer had planned to stop the process at the very end. of the year 2021, information since denied. As a result, a million more PS4s are expected to hit the console market this year.

However, this figure is not set in stone and could well be modulated according to consumer demand. Beyond the fact of countering the shortage which currently strikes the construction of the PS5, Sony justifies this choice because of the greater simplicity of manufacture of the previous machine: this one uses, among other things, less advanced chips which makes a major economic alternative pending a return to normal for next-gen consoles.



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