Nintendo recently said that it will be unable to keep up with demand for the Switch this Holiday season, while Valve also recently delayed the Steam Deck to February 2022 for the same reason. This, of course, is just one of several examples of the semiconductor shortage impacting a company’s plans in a major way. That, as you might imagine, could lead to some issues with whether or not Sony manages to hits its target sales numbers for the PS5 in the current fiscal year (which are 14.8 million units sold, according to the company).
Where previously the company had hoped to manufacture a total of 16 million PS5 consoles throughout the year, that number has now reportedly been lowered to 15 million. Allegedly, Sony has been having issues with procuring the semiconductor chips it needs to hit its PS5 manufacturing targets for the current fiscal year (which ends on March 31, 2022). Now, a report by Bloomberg claims that that has come to pass. While Sony had previously stated that it had already acquired enough semiconductor chips to hit its target sales for the current fiscal year ( which would be a total of 14.8 million units), the company has, to be fair, also made it clear that due to the global situation brought about by COVID, there’s the possibility that things end up getting disrupted. For some time, the question, of course, has been whether that will affect Sony’s targets- and it seems the answer could be yes.
Sony has been selling the console faster than it can make it, and a lot of that is, of course, down to the global semiconductor shortage, which has affected a number of other companies around the world as well. Even a year after its launch, the PS5, which has sold 13.4 million units worldwide remains hard to find.
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