We don`t have real info on that. But possibly around June/July.

Well it kind of depends on orders from retail stores, whether they choose to air freight it or ship it by boat (PS5 has chosen the former for launch), if stores do not sell fast enough, then there is a backup of production and space, which leads to decreasing production. I'm not saying that this will occur for the PS5, I'm just saying that it is possible for produced to be very different form shipped. I actually doubt the PS5 will suffer from slashing of production or overproduction, but I'm also pretty confident that it won't do as well as some people claim. I've seen a couple claim 20 million in its first year, which would be very interesting, but doubtful.

Sure would be true.

But for a succesfull console like PS4, Switch and we hope PS5 as well (at least I do) the production is shipped very fast and also sold as soon as hit the stores.

20M in first year is sure very unlikely (could happen? perhaps 1 chance in 10 thousand), but yes it is possible for a console production to outpast demand from retailers and then production needing to be reduced (we could say that whenever a console manufacturer revise down the forecast is that their production forecast was outpacing the demand so they had to reduce so they won`t have big inventories and needless expesnses).

Well... technically that was also a rumor/report. Even though it was cited by GIbiz, Bloomberg and Nikkei. 

And that rumor reads that sony is planning on readying 10M units by the end of the year. Nikkei says its closer to 9M and not 10M. And this was all slated for this holiday season.

It wasn't denied though, but then again, its the kinda thing that even if it weren't the case sony wouldn't deny it.

So, Bloomberg publishes a completely false story about PS5 production and as a result, Sony's shares fall 3.5%.

And who reported on that fact? Bloomberg.

"Sony's shares were down by as much as 3.5% in the wake of the news -- the biggest intraday drop since August, according to Bloomberg." This bit in quotes is from the new link in the update OP. Amazing racket they have here.

Bloomberg: We Make Up The News That Makes Up The News.

I actually compiled the best first years for consoles and no console has done it, even when I added holiday launch to the entirety of the next year the closest was Wii at 19.51 million for 13 months, followed by the PS4 at 18.19 million in 14 months. Hell the PS2 only crossed the mark once (According to shipments from Sony) in 2003, it came close in 2002, 2004, and 2006 (all 18-19.9 million) and the DS only managed 13.85 in its first 14 months.

Would be very funny if Sony sue them for the loses and is accused of censoring and hating democracy. Isn`t lovely how "protecting the source" can be used to manufacture any rumor you want?

If Sony can prove that Bloomberg published disinformation to manipulate stock then they do have a case. Shorting stocks and then trying to manipulate it's price downward is illegal.

More info on that practice: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortanddistort.asp

The safe bet would be in June, shortly after that future of gaming event. 

They would do it that way because the chances of the console design getting leaked would be very high once production has started. So, get ahead of it and just do the reveal.

Well all those consoles didn't got 20M or more in the first year because they didn't had enough inventory, they could have.