When will the switch outsell the ps4?

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

curl-6 said:

With Sony already struggling to meet demand for PS5, it makes sense for them to switch over their finite production capacity to their new system instead of prolonging the PS4. We're already seeing this with the discontinuation of all but one model in Japan.

It surely makes a lot of sense to stop making umpteen models just for a market where PS4 nowadays sells less than 13k in the best week of the holidays, but it could make sense too to unify the production in a Super Slim model, with a robust price cut, to cater to a market segment that always exixts and that doesn't want or can't spend the price recently launched consoles ask for, neither it's ready to spend a price too high for an old one.
A Super Slim requires cooler and less power-hungry chips though, so if future planned PS4 production doesn't justify a new die-shrunk version of the APU, PS4 latest years will just consist of a production limited to the best selling current SKU, like already decided for Japan, or at most the best selling two elsewhere.

The problem for this is that it would need a 7nm process, and those production capacities are hopelessy overloaded, just look at the shortages in the GPU market. By the time 7nm would become viable again the PS4 will be pretty much dead already.