Sony is aiming to sell over 7.6 million PlayStation 5 consoles by the end of March next year, as the company has raised its overall profit outlook by 13 per cent to ¥700 billion (~$6.7 billion). The organisation tends to be cautious with its hardware forecasts, so don’t be surprised if it eclipses that number. Nevertheless, it’d be a bigger figure than the PlayStation 4, which sold around 7 million units during its first fiscal year.
Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki admitted that the PS5 will be sold at a small loss initially, which will contribute a “small minus” to the organisation’s bottom line. The firm is betting on continued PlayStation Plus subscriptions and high software sales to cancel out these costs.
Earlier this week, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan revealed that many fans may not be able to purchase a PS5 at launch due to significant demand. He admitted that the next-gen console matched 12 weeks of PS4 pre-orders in just 12 hours in the United States, and that the firm is doing everything it can to manufacture more.
[source yahoo.com]
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My hope for getting ps5 this year seems smaller by the days 😅
Yeah, I remember them being hopeful of selling 3 to 4m PS4s in a similar period at that consoles launch, and we all know how that went down. They hit roughly 6.5m. They have a tendency to set sales figures for both software and hardware low. I have no idea whether it is a corporate strategy, or whether their executives are in a constant state of surprise at how well their PlayStation division is doing.
Well I'm guessing that they can easily hit that target, it's just a matter if they can make enough consoles. Does anyone know how much is available for pre ordered? I'm thinking that's got to be a few million right?
@Daleaf
The numbers have been all over the place. Initially it was thought that there would be 5 million available for pre-order. Then Sony said that they were doubling production, suggesting 10 million. Then there was a Bloomberg article saying that supply chain constraints were causing Sony to reduce output from 15 million to 11 million.
So...millions.
I am going with an optimistic 20 million ps5 sold by Jan 2022, if God of War and Horizon FW make it in 2021.
If they can get them in stock, they will sell them.
At this point they are probably going to sell through whatever they can get out at least into January. Whatever they can get on shelves is going to sell
@AJDarkstar yea same here with ps4 I managed to get one a few months after launch easily.
I honestly think ps5 will be really hard to get for a few months after launch probably around Feb I'd say, all stock will be gone fast, just got to get lucky I guess, so glad I managed to get my pre order in. Someone I work with wants to get one for their kids for Xmas, I told them that they probably won't be able to get one before Xmas, she still thinks that she will though lol.
I think both next gen consoles are going to be very hard to get hold of for quite a while, its just a question of how quickly they can get them into stores
Wasn't that number 11 million at some point?
It'd be 7million +1 if I can get my hands on one!
@carlos82 I agree with everyone being home the supply is way lower then the demand for all 4 systems.
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