Wednesday, July 15th 2020
Sony Doubles Playstation 5 Orders Amid High Demand
According to the Bloomberg report, Sony has reportedly doubled Playstation 5 orders and plans to ship 10 million units this fiscal year. Originally, Sony wanted to ship 5-6 million units between November of this year and March 31st of 2021. However, Sony is seeing a very high demand for its next-generation console and it had to double the production orders. Being manufactured in Kisarazu, Japan, the company can assemble two Playstation 4 consoles every minute, which is pretty impressive and gives hope that Sony can satisfy the demand for the new console. When the manufacturing costs of the console are broken down into parts, memory is making for more than half of it. The super-fast PCIe 4.0 SSD and GDDR6 memory cost about $250 combined. Reports are suggesting that the entire console costs an amazing $450 to manufacture.
Source:
TweakTown
26 Comments on Sony Doubles Playstation 5 Orders Amid High Demand
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However maybe they would like to boost it a little - 16Gbps GDDR6 would give them 512GB/s bandwidth instead of 448 - close enough to the XSX's peak. It might depend on pricing, and 14 is going to be cheaper than 16 and the gain is likely minimal. Too late now to change.
It will be interesting to see a final BoM once it is released. I suspect the SSD and RAM will cost less than the $250 in the article, but the AMD SoC will be more than the PS4 SoC at launch due to 7nm node and using decent CPUs and AMD wanting a better margin now than in the past.
But as many they are nationalistic, and they don't value price above all else, they also have amazing quality.
As for the Xbone, why would they buy it ?
None of the games they love are on it.....
And?
Do you also complain that cars with a top speed of +100mp/h are made,
You know, cause most countries have speed limits well below that. ;)
No one forces you to buy/play it, so...
Outside the fact: how many games can you play locally with 2-4 ppl and/or splitscreen on a single pc?