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Dulfite said:
Marth said:

Do you really think they make the SoC and the rest of the damn box in the same factory?

Uh, no? But that's not the point? For it to be considered "produced" means it is completely made. If 20 PS5's are created, then 20 will ship is the point. No one would count production numbers for partially completed PS5's lol that would be insane.

Let`s count the BD drivers, RAM or GPUs as production shipment. Why? For the fun of it.

Ryotsu said:
Intrinsic said:

From the Bloomberg.jp article. Google translate is your friend.

The gist of it, apparently, Sony intended to ship 15M PS5s by March 2021, but due to yield issues that has been revised down by 4M units to 11M PS5s by March 2021. The analysts also says that the price of the PS5 is expected to be $399 and $449 for the digital and standard SKUs respectively.

It is clear that Sony has revised down the production volume of the next-generation game machine "PlayStation (PS) 5" to be released within the year by 4 million units in this term (the term ending March 2021) to about 11 million units. Became. The production yield of the specially designed integrated circuit "System on Chip (SOC)", which corresponds to the heart of PS5, is not stable.

Because the information was not disclosed, multiple parties revealed it on condition of anonymity. In July, the company informed its parts suppliers that it would double its production volume, considering that the consumption of nesting due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection would support demand even after the year-end sales season.

According to the person concerned, the production volume has been forced to be reviewed because the yield of SOC is sluggish at about 50%. He said that the yield is improving, but the quality has not reached a stable level. A Sony spokeswoman declined to comment.

Last week, Microsoft sold the "Xbox Series X" for $ 499 (Japan's domestic price is 49,980 yen) and the "Series S" without a disk drive for $ 299 (32,980 yen). Announced to be released on the 10th of March. There is a view that the announcement of affordable prices poses a threat to Sony.

Sony is expected to announce details such as price and release date at the PS5 related video event to be held on the 17th. Masahiro Wakasugi, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, expects the cheapest case to be priced at $ 449 for a model with a disk drive and $ 399 for a model without a disk drive.

Would expected someone to say Sony is just denying to save face.

sales2099 said:
DonFerrari said:

Just as I imagined, if the rumor is negative for Sony you use it as true, but when confirmed information is negative for MS you just pretend it doesn`t exist.

Easy now, if the rumor is debunked I won’t cite it anymore. And I heard no rumors of Series X production being impacted  this year. If so please clarify. 

What about the confirmed that Devkits for XSX were very late? What about no next gen game being show "running on XSX" instead "target HW config" or equivalent? What about only a small portion of games being optimized for Series X even though it was the one confirmed several months ago with Series S just now being confirmed? Those are confirmed information that you don`t really cared about, but for rumors against Sony you were merry =p

Marth said:
Dulfite said:

Uh, no? But that's not the point? For it to be considered "produced" means it is completely made. If 20 PS5's are created, then 20 will ship is the point. No one would count production numbers for partially completed PS5's lol that would be insane.

We have different definitions then.

What you are talking about is a retail shipment as it goes from assembly to retail.

Production shipment is a shipment from chip production to device assembly.

And the thread is about 15M consoles not chips, memories, BD reader, etc.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."