Good to see both PS5 and XS up year-on-year, even if Sony is up just for a bit.

Next year should be better for both systems.

PS5 should have no problem growing its year-on-year lead as sales were rather low all of last holiday. 

The first 6 months of 2022 were pretty awful for PS5, YOY growth can be very significant if they start producing more and more systems.

First 6... try the first 11 months. It wasnt until just this past 1st of December that 2022 PS5 sales totals surpassed 2021.

The situation got a little bit better starting in July, there were some weeks in the first 6 months of 2022 that the PS5 did less than 100K/week.

I'm still surprised they are confident in surpassing their 18m forecast for FY22 unless they throw everything in the first three months of 2023, but I really doubt it.

Switch on track to hit its FY target of 19 million units, which would be a fantastic haul for its 6th year on the market.

Sony seems to be headed towards prioritizing US and Asia over EU (relative to demand). Time will tell if they're making the right decision or are taking Europe for granted. But I don't think it will matter because once demand in US and Asia is met, they'll start sending more units to EU, so things should normalize in the short term either way.

Then again it would not shock me that even with significant production improvement, PS5 will still fail to meet demand in most regions until mid 2024. I think Spider-Man 2, PS5 revision, and potentially PSVR2 might help increase demand greatly. The revision in paricular may be a game changer because it could be the moment Sony finally pushes towards digital edition adoption ($100 cheaper).

I’d be very surprised if this isn’t the last we see of any significant PS5 shortages. They should have more than enough production now to satisfy demand on a week by week basis outside the holidays, and they will have the whole of 2023 to stock up surplus consoles for christmas.

The thing is the European PS5 before the increase at 499 euro made them around  26 dollars US a unit more but with the increase to 549 euro and $479.99 pound the exchange rates sees them earning around $582. per unit 

With the increased price for the PS5 they now retail for 549.00 euro / 479 pound the exchange rate equivalent of 582.00 US dollars and even before the increase they were retailing at 499 euro/ 525 US dollars so even before the price hike Sony were making $26.00 more than the $499.00 US retail.