According a report from Bloomberg, Sony is scaling back the production of the PS5 due to manufacturing issues related to the console’s custom system-on-chip (SoC). Sony’s ambition was to produce 15 million PS5 units by the end of the financial year to March 2021, but this has now been scaled back.
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Despite the PS4 launching in Europe in late November 2013 across Europe, the console is still suffering shortages eights months on. Sony is struggling to keep up with demand for the PS4, while Xbox One units patiently sit on shelves waiting for someone to purchase one. “We haven’t yet caught up with the initial demand across Europe.” explained Fergal Gara, Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK. “We are still dealing with the day one market.”
Sony’s next-gen console is still affected with supply shortages, and the company has told the WSJ that it doesn’t expect to meet demand before this summer. The console is now available in every major territory, including Sony’s home country of Japan, where 300,000 units were sold in the first week.
According to the latest NPD figures, the PlayStation 3 has now sold approximately 11,761,000 units in the US till the end of February. The Xbox 360, on the otherhand, has broken the 19 million mark with approximately 19,383,900 units sold. At the end of last April, the Xbox 360 had double the install base of the PS3, with 14.9 million 360s and only 7.5 million PS3s in the NPD.
With its unique gameplay and critical acclaim, Heavy Rain has sold over 500,000 units in its first week on shelves. Although the game received great reviews, many feared that the game would not do well in terms of sales. Preliminary sales data from VGChartz show that Heavy Rain is doing well so far. In key markets – around 200,000 were sold in the Americas, nearly 100,000 in the UK, over 50,000 in France and 25,000 in Japan.
