The company had plan to grow to 16 million units by March, to reach its sales goal for the period. As a result, the company will be able to expand into production next year, and now be ready to develop. With the new number reduced to the 30,000, it’s going to become much more difficult for people to buy a PS5 in the coming months. Although the PS5 was incredibly difficult to come by in last year, it is likely that that will only make things worse. It also means that Sony won’t likely make its target for the fiscal year. It contradicts the previous statement from Sony, in which they said they’ll be able to meet their targets for March 2022. The PS5 isn’t really struggling, having recently announced 13 billion units sold worldwide. One of the major issues that may affect the capacity to produce PS5s is likely the ongoing global chip shortage which has also affected the production of the Nintendo Switch. Valve recently announced the closure of the Steam Deck, which was set to arrive this holiday season and now releasing in February 2022, also citing material and component shortages as the reason for that. Because of the explosion, the supply chain unpredictable, and with nothing in sight, these problems continue to disappear.
