RolStoppable said:
Yup, I definitely did not expect it that the PS4 could have something as crazy as its holiday quarter being lower than the preceding quarter. I didn't expect it a few months later either, when in August Sony forecasted 9m for the fiscal year. They've now shipped only 4.8m through the first three quarters of the fiscal year, which looks as if they didn't know how many they'd be able to produce or would be producing. It's odd. Back in May 2020, I expected sub-10m for the fiscal year, bringing the LTD shipments by March 2021 to at least 118m, with another few million to follow. That's why I had ruled out under 120m entirely. No price cut was a given, but even then more than 1.4m during the holiday quarter seemed like a sure thing, because it's normal for the holiday quarter to be the biggest one of the year. |
Some of the low stock makes sense due to the high demand from earlier due to the stimulus checks/ covid. It appears Sony thought the manufacturing shortage would be resolved by now. And then after the high demand for the PS4, the PS5 needs to be manufactured, so they get hit by a double whammy and must choose with the shortages.
Either way both Sony and Nintendo frequently don't know what they are talking about when it comes to demand. PS3 only had ~8m post successor sales, and so if they met their targets, the PS4 would have easily surpassed that, which I thought was unfeasible in the current market.
