Sony Might Be Unable To Meet PlayStation 5 Demand

<p>The PlayStation 5 might not be able to meet demands if a recent report is to be believed&period; Due to faults in the components&comma; Sony reports producing millions less units than they initially expected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The core chip&comma; designed with AMD&comma; seems to be the main culprit for Sony&&num;8217&semi;s manufacturing problems&period; This chip is a so-called system-on-a-chip&comma; meaning it covers several functions on a single chip&period; Half the parts produced weren&&num;8217&semi;t fit to ship&comma; which has delayed manufacturing immensely&period; And while the figure is improving&comma; it has yet to reach stable levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"RkC0l4iekYo" title&equals;"PS5 Hardware Reveal Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;RkC0l4iekYo"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;RkC0l4iekYo&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"PS5 Hardware Reveal Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Still Within Expectations<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the number of PS5 units that are ready are still within Sony&&num;8217&semi;s expected numbers&period; After cutting the expected number of units ready by four million&comma; the company still has an estimated 11 million units ready for shipment&period; So while the manufacturing issues has lowered the number&comma; it is still within a reasonable amount&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a twist of fate&comma; the COVID-19 pandemic increased demand for the PS5&period; So the company originally only planned to have five-six million PS5 units produced by the end of March&period; But recent demands had Sony sharply increase its production&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony are holding an online event tomorrow on September 16th&period; And it is likely they will reveal a final price and release date for the console&period; The console will come in two variations&semi; one with a disc drive and one without it&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s difficult to say though whether Sony will have enough consoles ready to meet the demand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ps5-debate-discussion-is-it-worth-the-time&sol;">already discussed the<&sol;a> PlayStation 5 here on Bagogames&period; And we struggle to feel that excited about it due to the lack of information and lackluster launch games&period; So hopefully as more info comes out&comma; we will feel a stronger reason to buy it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Until then&comma; it seems Sony might have some issues getting enough units out to meet demand&period; And hopefully we won&&num;8217&semi;t have any defective consoles going on if the defect rate on the CPUs is this high&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;2020&sol;9&sol;15&sol;21437517&sol;sony-ps5-manufacturing-yields-problems-report" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">The Verge<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;