Famitsu sales: Week 20, 2022 - (9th May - 15th May)

[Otter]

Chrkeller said:

Otter said:

They can't do this overnight, its essentially producing and testing a new system. All games would need to be ported to this weaker PS5, it'd be a huge cost in itself and not be ready til years end. Better they ride the storm out and consider this route for their next gen.

Perhaps.  Still horrific planning on their part.  The ps5 is still sold out in the States and it launched sometime ago.  I've never seen anything like it.  Meanwhile MS is selling Series S quite well.  Sony better hope supply gets better.

I wouldn't say horrific planning as sony has still managed to produce more PS5's than MS has been able to produce Xbox's. Beyond that, the Series S wasn't developed to deal with the chip shortage, it was developed as a low entry device similar to the digital PS5. I don't think either anticipated such a chip shortage in 2019 when these systems were being finalised.