Assuming 4.2 million ps5s have been sold so far and they started manufacturing at scale them probably few months before launch they could be making ps5s as few as million units per month. So it's gonna be while before there is decent retail availability.
I'm patiently waiting for stock. I thought that this summer would be good, but if the system gets the must have games and updates, it's going to go back to hard to find status. Hope not, but this year it might just be the hard to find tech like graphic cards
I honestly had forgotten that the whole reason I originally wanted one was to replace my loud ps4 because of all of the hype from the launch but after failing to nab one over and over again , I'm like I'll get one whenever it becomes easily available. I can just play my switch more and catch up on my ps4 backlog.
Isn't it just the demand is a lot higher than the ps4/x1 launch? I do find that weird since the marketing for ps4 was a lot better than the ps5. I thought the ps5 was sold more than the ps4 at launch as well. Nevermind they had better sales for this launch.
remember the wording, dollars sales, not units, ps5 is 20% more expensive, pretty easy to cover the ground with a similar demand. The ps5 total sales seem like they are probably slightly lower than the ps4s, as they seem to be in the UK,. Also, a big part of the cost is scalpers seem much worse this time, about 100k ps5 consoles have been sold on eBay in the US, facebook market place, craiglists, amazon, all add to that number, so maybe 10-20% of the supply being caught up by them is definitely making things worse. Basically the demand is comparable to ps4, but much worse scalpers and the slightly lower amount available coupled with a slightly larger population (about 5% growth since 2013) makes for happy scalpers and annoyed other people
TBH what are you really missing right now? Demon Souls remake, which seems destined to be treated like it was on PS3 (most people bought it when it was cheap) and Astors Playroom (not going anywhere and a strong tech demo)
Thanks Gandalf. March, then?
exactly like me, I'm just resigned now playing latest games with a turbo jet sound, that mf* better last until summer
Everything they made has been sold. Won't be easy to get one from retail for a few years at least.
This will be the slowest transition to next gen ever, by your take.
I can see a very long period of cross gen happening too.
Microsoft said it from the get go, while Sony believed in generations.
That would be catastrophic for the entire industry.
Well, it seems like AMD just don't have enough production capacity to supply right now. unless Sony paid them to divert resources away from consumer cards or other customers... but that would probably break contracts. I really don't know what they can do....
People will go elsewhere then.
Gamers will start looking at Stadia and Luna if they can’t get the hardware they want.
Well, that's why they are supplying USA and NA first. They know Europe and Asia wont buy anything else in any large numbers.
Lol I’m sure you don’t believe what you type.
I believe it as much as those who say there won’t be stock until 2022.
