Sony has confirmed it has enough semiconductors on hand to sell 14.8 million PS5s during the current fiscal year, bringing the total to 22 million sold if that target is hit.
Almost nine months on from the console's launch, PS5s remain notoriously hard to come by. Well, not for everyone it seems as PlayStation recently revealed it has already managed to sell 10 million of them. That makes the PS5 the fastest-selling console in PlayStation history, and no, not all of them are sitting in scalpers' warehouses.
Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki revealed during a web call that the company has the semiconductors to manufacture enough PS5s to reach the target it previously set. That target is 14.8 million consoles. Since the PS5 had sold eight million units by the end of FY2021 and has sold two million more since then, the assumption is Sony plans on selling 12 million more in the next eight months, and it has secured the means to make that a reality.
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“The target has been set for the number of units to be sold this year, and we have secured the number of chips that is necessary to achieve that,” Totoki confirmed. The global semiconductor shortage has been a problem for all electronics manufacturers during the pandemic. It has also limited the number of Series X|S consoles Xbox has been able to create and sell, but it still managed to break its own record for fastest-selling console.
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Despite not being able to create enough PS5s to go around, PlayStation remains adamant that it will continue to break all sorts of records in the coming months and years. It continues to outdo the PS4, hitting the ten million mark three weeks faster, and will beat it again if 14.8 million PS5s are sold during the current financial year.
It has also set itself the lofty goal of breaking a 25-year-old record in FY2023. Most PlayStation consoles sold in a single financial year, a record that was set by the PS1 in 1998. It will need to sell 22.6 million consoles over a 12-month period in order to achieve that. Should the PS5 hit all of these goals, which seems likely, it could well become the best selling console ever, PlayStation or otherwise.
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