| leo-j said: Right now the only platforms readily available to purchase in December are: |
I don't know. Correct me if I'm wrong. But the way I understand it is, these Series S sales are coming from an accumulation of unsold stock that was previously not in high demand. It's selling well now because it's holiday season, and the average consumer is going to take what they can get/give as a gift. Microsoft isn't suddenly pumping out Series S at an increased rate. They have been producing what they can alongside the Series X throughout the year. If Sony were to take that approach, but with producing PS4's at the same time as the PS5 disc and all-digital, it would take resources away from the max # of PS5's they can produce. Sony is in no way whatsoever interested in doing that. Just because all the parts aren't the same doesn't mean that a production line isn't getting diverted from one to the other. Sony deviated from their usual staggered region launch window in order to proclaim the PS5 launch as the greatest PlayStation launch of all time. They have zero interest in reducing their capability of producing PS5's by even a single unit, regardless of how many PS4's they might be able to sell instead. PS4 sales aren't going to boost PS5 software sales. The type of customer that's going to be entering the Sony ecosystem at this point in the console's lifespan would most likely be building up their game library from the bargain bin, or used. That makes them an unattractive proposition from a business standpoint for Sony to go after rather than focus on manufacturing as many PS5's as they can get into the supply channel.
