Sony reached a milestone last year with its PlayStation 5 console. The latest home console from Team Blue sold a total of 4.5 million units in just a little over a month. Sony aims to sell over 14.8 million by March 2022. Unfortunately, the already-problematic stock shortage could continue well into the year due to a lack of parts for the console's production.
Neverending PlayStation troubles
The PlayStation 5's rocky launch did little to diminish Sony's celebrations. One Sony spokesperson expressed the company's optimistic goals for the brand new console. Additionally, the PS5 was levied against the success of its predecessor the PlayStation 4.
“For (the) next fiscal year, we believe that there will be strong demand to continue. The second year of the launch of the PS4 (hit) 14.8 million, we would like to exceed that level of PS4 when it comes to PS5.”
Fans everywhere succumbed to the unfair tricks of a group of scalpers designed to choke the market of supply and raise prices for the console on the black market. Sony promised to ramp up the production of their consoles but this new problem is entirely unavoidable.
AMD announced in late January that it anticipated a chip shortage across the industry. Sony acknowledges the global shortage of semiconductors and how that might affect their development.
Fans left waiting for a new console to be available in their local retailer may have to wait longer for new stocks to hit. Sony clearly misread and underestimated the hype and demand for their new console. Of course, the situation could have been helped by a stricter control over rampant scalping.
Regardless of scalpers or shortages, Sony claims to be on track to meet its goal of selling 7.6 million units by March 31, 2020. Hopefully, Sony adds the very pressing issue of the global stock shortage for the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 remains a strong competitor in the current console wars generation.
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