curl-6 said:
It's possible, but 4 million is a big gap to be caused by stock allocation alone, especially when the chip crunch is long over. |
The PS5 wasn't readily available in Europe until the beginning of this year. 2022 and prior all shipped units essentially sold immediately. So now in 2023 the stock situation is over how's it holding up? Well for 2023 so far the PS5 has sold 6.69m compared to the PS4's 5.37m in equivalent months. This year PS5 is on track to demolish PS4's peak EU year of 7.4m (2017).
We can't say for definite what the PS5 would have sold in 2022 and before if it had unlimited stock. All we know is that now there is stock the PS5 is outselling the PS4. There isn't concrete proof either way of what the result would have been, but PS5's sales potential in Europe is clearly very high now it is not limited and we'll see if it can close that gap over the coming years or not.
I don't think 4 million is too much to have been caused by the stock issues alone, but there's also no proof that with stock it would have sold more than the PS4. How the PS5 performs in the years ahead will give a better indication on this. If this year in EU is being boosted by pent-up demand or if the PS5 will keep selling faster than the PS4 in the years ahead.
