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Otter on 19 December 2020
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Mnementh said:
Otter said:

No, it doesn't add up. If you add Japans later launch to PS4 launch numbers, there are still more PS5.

PS5 launched only second week in europe, for PS4 europe launch was week 3. So I add the first three weeks. For PS4 I add the first three weeks of japans launch to worldwide numbers.

PS5: 1.548.910+1.082.418+400.496=3.031.824

PS4: 1.071.184+98.775+966.210+319.689+58.820+33443=2.548.121

So even despite the staggered launch Sony could produce 500K less units for PS4 than they did for PS5. But yet even with much higher supply, they decided to send even less to Japan. Again: as I just add the japanese launch numbers PS4 should theoretically have a strong advantage here, but Sony optimized it's production for PS5 and could supply much more. That means the low numbers in Japan are a deliberate decision. Sony doesn't care about Japan. Not only not care, actively undersupplying them.

You're still comparing supply to Japan at 2 different points in the launch cycle. By the time PS4 launched in Japan the holidays had passed in the west and sony had already sold over 5m units. I'm not sure if undersupplying is worse than not launch at all in the same period, but in practice you're looking at the same pricipal between this and the pS4 launch: prioritising demand in the west.