Microsoft’s Xbox Series X has faced the same issue, with the company’s chief financial officer telling investors back in November that a console shortage could last until April.īloomberg reported as far back as February 2020 that scarce components had driven the manufacturing cost of the PlayStation 5 to $450. The company in November said the new PlayStation 5 is facing “unprecedented” demand, making its availability scarce, even though more PS5s have been available, in whole numbers, than their predecessor.
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Sony’s PlayStation revenue from game sales (both PS4 and PS5, add-on content included) plus larger profit margins on the outgoing PlayStation 4 more than made up any shortfall, the company said.īy comparison, the PlayStation 4 sold more than 4.2 million units from its November 2013 launch to the end of that year. The losses on PS5 sales were not specifically broken out - and they were part of an overall Game & Network Services Segment that saw a 26.7 billion yen ($2.5 billion) increase in operating income over the same quarter in 2019. The disclosure was part of Sony’s quarterly report to investors, delivered in Japan earlier today. 12 launch to the end of the year, but it took a loss on those sales because the PS5’s “strategic price point” is lower than what it cost to manufacture it. Sony shipped more than 4.5 million PlayStation 5s from the console’s Nov.
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