drkohler on 13 June 2021
| yo33331 said: They don't have any motivation, they will probably not do it .. However it is better to sell lets say 10M more PS4s at 199$ with profit let's say 50$ per console, than selling 1M more units with 150$ profit per console |
That is not how it works. The fewer "things" you manufacture, the more expensive they get. PS4 production levels are low now, and with the semiconductor supply problems, it costs a lot more now to manufacture the thingies, despite R&D having been recouped fully. If anything Sony taught us with the PS4, they are not willing to lose money on its hardware.
My guess is someone inside Sony already came up with the idea of killing PS4 production (one final big shipment) in favour of the PS5.
