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Re: PS Plus Extra, Premium PS5, PS4 Games for October 2022 Announced

AndroidBango

Re. Syndicate, don't hold your breath. This is from @UbisoftSupport a few minutes ago on Twitter:

"Hi Good Hunter, as AC Syndicate is no longer developed, we don't have any updates planned for the game. Though it may run on PS5, the game may exhibit errors or unexpected behaviour and some features available on PS4 may be absent.
Sorry for any inconvenience."

https://twitter.com/UbisoftSupport/status/1580230966593097728

Re: PS5 Price Increase Confirmed for UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and More

AndroidBango

Good analysis of this in the FT.

In addition to rising global costs and a semiconductor shortage that has held production levels far below demand, the PS5 has been a victim of currency volatility. The PS5 was launched in November 2020 when the yen traded at about ¥105 against the US dollar. Since June this year, the currency has been below ¥130 to the dollar, significantly increasing the PS5’s production cost in yen terms.

Also, that before the price rise Sony was already making a loss per PS5

In June … Sony was losing as much as ¥15,000 on each PS5 unit it sold in Japan. Globally, the average loss per machine was likely to be about $50

Finally, a bit of sales data, as of June 2022 total global sales were:
PS5 21.7m
XSX 15m
XSS doesn't mention

Meaning on average Sony have lost $1.085bn on PS5 hardware sales.

It's not just CEX ramping second-hand prices, check out this news from Japan:

In Sony’s home market of Japan, machines have been in such short supply that units at present sell in the second-hand market at a premium of about 70 per cent over the official (pre-increase) retail price. In May, Sony sold just 2,693 PS5 units in Japan — a number that reflected the exceptionally tight supply.