Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 2020 (Dec 14 - Dec 20)

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OTBWY said:

Marth said:

“Dear customers: due to the manufacturer ending production, the following products will not be restocked.”
・PS4 500GB Glacier White
・PS4 1TB Jet Black
・PS4 1TB Glacier White
・PS4 2TB Jet Black
・PS4 Pro 1TB Glacier White pic.twitter.com/nub3lxcJGX

— Cheesemeister (@Cheesemeister3k) January 3, 2021

That's... a surprise. Usually Sony rides a console till the wheels fall off. I'd expected PS4 production to continue well into this decade.

Maybe with the coronavirus total production capacity is limited and Sony needed to free up some by sacrificing the PS4.

On the other hand, the spike in sales due to coronavirus early-to-mid 2020 most probably made the people who would have bought a PS4 after the PS5 launch buy it earlier than expected. Also, with the PS5 selling so well (well, outside of Japan at least) and being backwards compatible, there's the possibility that there are a lot of used PS4 on the market that are much cheaper than new ones, killing off the market for the PS4 for Sony.