| Qwark said: Why is everyone expecting Sony and Microsoft to produce more consoles. The hardware to make these consoles is scarce and usually consoles don't sell 15 million units in their first year, simply because they can't make them fast enough. The PS4 also only sold 14 million units its first year. That console its hardware was also dated at the start so the chips where easier to produce. Around summer Sony and Microsoft should be able to ramp up the numbers. It also probably doesn't help that the machines share many components like the CPU. |
Sony was the one who announced they had ramped up production, immediately refuted the Bloomberg report that they were having production issues, and touted the PS5 as "the biggest console launch ever". It's barely tracking above the PS4 at this point in time (4.48m sold by 1/4/2014 in just NA & PAL), despite the PS5 having launched 2 weeks earlier in Europe, and 3 months earlier in Japan. Sony was the one who set the expectations that their would be vastly more PS5's out now than there were PS4's in early 2014.
