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Intrinsic on 14 September 2020
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drkohler said:
Intrinsic said:

Funny enough, the fact sony upped shipments for the fiscal year (which in this case for the PS5 only covers Nov 2020 -March 2021, 4 months) from 6Mto 10M tells you they always planned on coming in at a price point that could sell units quickly. Mind you, it took sony almost 10 months to ship 10M PS4s, and they plan on shipping that many in 4 months.

Uh...no?

Production of the PS5 started somewhere around early to mid-June. From mid-June to end of March, it's over 9 months, so pretty much the same as the PS4. Sales start in late November and they better have something to sell by then (so units_are_ shipping right now).

Pls stop confusing yourself.

No one cars when production starts, what is tracked is how many shipments are done in any given quarter. In the first 2 quarters of the PS4's availability, (q3 + q4 2013/14 fiscal year, Oct 2013 - March 2014), sony was able to ship 7M PS4s in that timeframe. 

Sony is going to ship 10M PS5s in the same time frame. 

It took sony till the q1/q2 2014/15 (apr 2014 - sept 2014) to ship 10M PS4s because having sold through 10M PS4s was announced in August at GDC in 2014. Sony plans on achieving the same feat by March or April 2021.