According to the forecasts of a famous Japanese market specialist Hideki Yasudarepresenting an analytical company Ace securities, by March 31, 2023 Sony will be able to implement 6 million consoles Playstation 5. Thus, in terms of total sales for the first one and a half quarters, the new set-top box will lag about 1.5 million from the PlayStation 4 in the same time since its launch in 2013, the expert is sure. He wrote about this in a note sent to the manufacturer’s investors.
Yasuda notes that at the time of the launch of the PlayStation 5, the affordable PlayStation 4 will remain more attractive than the PlayStation 3 at the turn of the generation at the time. However, in general, sales of the old set-top box will continue to decline, and already in the next financial year (April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2023), the PlayStation 5 will completely eclipse it, the analyst said.
In general, his predictions for the PlayStation 5 are as follows:
- Sales until March 31, 2023 – 6,000,000 consoles (-1.5 million compared to PS4)
- Sales between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2023 are 15,000,000 consoles (PlayStation 4 sold 14,800,000 systems in its first full fiscal year).
The expert predicts that this year the market will see a fight for DRAM between electronics manufacturers, which could theoretically lead to a shortage of the PlayStation 5 in the start-up period. However, at the time of writing the notes for investors, serious problems were not observed, he wrote.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Sony’s cost of producing the PlayStation 5 increased due to a shortage of parts.. After that, many experts started talking about asking at least $ 499 for a new console.
Sony is not yet ready to announce the cost of a new console.
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