Sony Aims to Break PS One’s Peak Annual Sales Record of 22.6 Million Units with PS5 Next Fiscal Year

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Sony’s first-generation PlayStation console was a juggernaut that managed to peak at 22.6 million units sold in fiscal year 1998, but the Japanese gaming giant thinks that its latest console has what it takes to smash that record. Speaking to a group of shareholders at an event held in Tokyo yesterday, President and CEO of Sony Corporation Mr. Kenichiro Yoshida said that his company would increase the supply of PS5 consoles in order to meet its goal of beating the PS One’s peak annual sell-in record in fiscal year 2022. While this seems like a lofty challenge due to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage (as noted in the company’s accompanying slide), the PS5 has seemingly been selling well enough for that goal to become a reality—Sony’s recent full year earnings release did reveal that its next-generation console managed to beat the PS4’s...

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[Brian_B]

I don't think the question is if they can sell them. The question is can they make them.

 

[DrezKill]

They could break sales records if they actually had consoles to sell.

 

[Denpepe]

If at the time I was not so busy getting an RTX 3xxx series cards I would have tried harder to get a preorder in for the new consoles, I never imagined supply would be so low and demand so crazy high.

Xbox is pretty unpopular in my country so I tought I would have at least gotten one of those by now but it seems that due to that there is (almost) no supply here.

I found one store selling PS5 consoles at 979€ iso 499€ so they can choke on them evenpeople on ebay and the likes don't ask for that much.