Never saw PS5 freely in stock, but the alerts I put on the app of like 5 stores have informed me of when there is stock (once I checked and it was still available), but I had already bought mine couple weeks before because I was in a group that monitor and informs of stock availability (and it truly works), like almost every week there is one missing PS5 over there available and like every couple months a big batch that you can "take your time" as it takes like over 2 hours for the stock to vanish.

This has less to do with PS5's supply changing. I highly doubt PS5 is missing any of Sony's upcoming shipment targets.

This has to do with the massive demand for PS5, which obviously grows during the holiday season and is spread globally. PS5 <500k in Nov NPDs......that's almost half of what PS4 shipment, and yet PS5 shipments will be on track or ahead of PS4.

The WW demand for PS5 is so big that Sony was willing to cut US shipment by half.

To make this even more obvious, just look at the second hand market prices. Looking at UK





PS5 has a 2x premium over XSX. Second hand PS5's can go for an outstanding £500 more than a second hand Series X. The demand for PS5 is simply far far bigger than any console at the moment.

I suspect that even a 23M FY may not be able to fulfill all the demand.

It's pointless to compare scalper prices, but the PS5 is not vastly more expensive than a XBox Series X for someone willing to throw money at a scalper.

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Most people can't. But anecdotally speaking, I know of several people IRL who were able to get a few from retailers.

My sister was able to get a few over the last year. One she kept (or at least her husband did). The rest, she sold. At first she was only getting a hundred dollar profit until I told her they were selling for much more.

She would have gotten me one--I'd just have to pay her back. I told her to get me an Xbox first. It never worked out, though. Every time she'd get it in her cart, it would charge her card multiple times (she has a 10% discount) and still not give her the console. My Xbox Series will be here in about 12 days and I kinda wish I would have gone ahead and gotten a PlayStation when I had the opportunity!

You're only looking at individual listings. That's not how a market works, an order book of bids and asks is what you should be observing.

PS5 has twice the sales and a $100 price premium over Series X. PS5 is way more in demand.

If there is any bright side to this it's that when the PS5 is able to be supplied enough to satisfy demand it might have an absolutely massive holiday season in 2023 or 2024.

There will be plenty that are willing to wait, but do you really think there aren't plenty also that will give up and buy an Xbox, Switch, gaming PC, or use the money on some other entertainment readily available?

You know shortly after I posted that I actually thought of that post you made about that lol. I do think the PS5 will be harmed in the long term by this to at least some extent from people giving up on getting one but so many people seem to want one that I expect the first holiday season they can satisfy demand to be really strong due to a large amount of people who didn't give up getting one at about the same time. A slim revision and perhaps a Pro one as well coming out the second half of 2023 will help too if that happens.

Yes. PS4(SS) on 7nm right now would've been a nightmare. SNY would almost certainly can PS4 for good and only make PS5 chips in that case.

I was focused mostly on PS5 since it's the new hot thing. If people will buy PS5's instead, SNY might as well focus on it over PS4 during this crisis.

PS4 chip production is also likely suffering, though you would think not near as much as PS5 since 16nm has been mature for a long time now.

Maybe if SNY was willing to give up some 16nm production, TSMC was able to give them a little more 7nm production in return perhaps?