They need to sell like 10-11m to reach that? Thats a new record needed just to reach that.

I think Sony is abit optimistic in their reporting... either that or they massive stepped up their game.

From Neogaf: 
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ytd-ps5-14-5-m-nsw-9-91-m-x-s-4-15-m.1663305/page-5#post-268609230

Edit:
Supposedly Sony had a year where they made about 25m units of PS2's.
So maybe this isnt in the realm of the impossible.

Yep though the PS4 Slim will have had an impact in that quarter too even though it launched earlier. It'll probably be at least somewhat close regardless of what happens.

Oh, they need more than that.  Remember, that chart is for the calendar year; those massive sales for Q1 (6.3m) won't be included for Sony's fiscal forecast of 25m.  The PS5 is currently at 8.2m shipped for the first two fiscal quarters, so it needs to ship another 16.8m total during the holiday quarter and fiscal Q4 to hit Sony's target.

Let's just say that Sony has its work cut out for it.

Well, at least they are setting high goals lol. As you all probably remember everyone doubted they could push 6.1 million in the last Q4 to hit their 19 million goal and they exceeded that by 200k

The people love to see it. It's the fact that the goal is so lofty that makes its worth watching.

The quarterly report shows G&NS has almost 1 trillion Yen in inventory. That is, I think, a record inventory. I expect them to ship well over 11M consoles for the last quarter. How many of those actually sell-through is anyone's guess.

It is very hard and challenging to hit 25M for the FY, but shouldn't be impossible (at least on Sony mind, if it were I think they would have revised their forecast, they were already taking a hit to their shareprice due to other stuff from Sony so better dump all at once then on the next report revise down and hit their shares when maybe the other stuff isn't doing bad).

That's about 12.6m PS5 units or so.

They were able to ship 7.1m units Q3 FY2022 with mostly the GOW:R bundle for $560 and limited stock, Sony concentrated a lot of stock in the US last holiday.

And whilst there will be significant growth in Holiday 2023 compared to 2022, the Biggest increase will be seen in Japan, ROTW but mostly Europe.

I'm truly curious to see how Sony wish to get those 12.6 and what will be the breakdown of what they achieve.

Europe is the Key.

The standalone disc console is €430 in Spain and Italy, and all bundles (MW3, Final Fantasy XVI, God of War Ragnarok, Spiderman 2, and EA Sports FC 24) are €499 at least in Spain.

I think the other main European markets (UK, France and Germany will follow).

I saw in some markets it would be 120 less than MSRP, is the regular price in those countries 550?