[Bloomberg] Sony Is Dealing With PlayStation 5 Shortage by Making More PS4s
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clearly Jim Ryan just needs to climb on up that PS5 tree and give it a good shake.
Yes.
How is that related to your comment that the generation has been disappointing and that we should skip the PS5 and wait for PS6?
A little too late for that, releasing a PS5-Lite now would be nothing but a mess, because it would mean any PS5 games released so far wouldn't be able to run on it without developer involvement, plus any game in development would all of a sudden have to account for one more console. The time to release such a console passed back when the PS5 launched in 2020.
But Xbox is making less series X, so either way, people lose out. Would Sony have changed things if they had hindsight? of course, but it takes years to implement changes like that and ultimately PS5 is still outselling the competition. I think the whole situation is so screwed up right now that regardless of the philosophy, companies would be having issues. And IO don't think people picking up an xbox is much of an issue, since they are also having supply chain issues.
Wouldn't it be able to run ports of the Series S? The only real issue would be Sony's own first party and third party exclusives.
I think they confirmed it was next gen only? I seem to remember some statements to that effect.
I haven't seen a PS4 in stores for months. They're selling for as much as I bought mine for, lol.
we are not getting enough PS5's by the time that they are available, it might be close enough that you could wait for the next generation
Glad I got a PS5 but it's unfortunate to know it'll be hamstrung by cross gen development for a bit.
I hope they implement some sort of cloud streaming tactic so that they can go full steam ahead on next gen exclusives that can be streamed to PS5's a-la XCloud.
I hope they implement some sort of cloud streaming tactic so that they can go full steam ahead on next gen exclusives that can be streamed to PS5's a-la XCloud.
1 million seems kinda low? It's not like you can easily get PS4s even now. Unless they're saying they're making an additional 1 Million on top of whatever PS4 production there is already.
I guess, but that is still going to be more work for developers to implement a year after launch. What if the CPU and GPU are weaker or stronger than the Series S? Either way developers will have to go back to make PS5 games work on said console.
They are matching the PS4 for sales! People act like they send out 7 Ps5s a week. They just shipped 70k consoles to Japan, a country that people claim they have zero shits for, they are clearly making a lot of them. Its just the demand is so high that they could be making more and they believe they can take advantage of Horizon and God of War hype by making more PS4's. Thats it. It does not ruin this generation, they wil still sell 20 million PS5s in a year etc etc. Massive massive exaggeration on your part.
Horizon and Elden Ring will be the first cross gen games I've played so far
Spider-Man 2 isn't coming out until at least fall 2023.
There is literally no chance of it being on PS4. None.
So wait till like 2027, PS6 launches, and you won't be able to grab one within a year or more because companies still won't have decent anti-bot systems in place. To PS7 and beyond?
The only reason Horizon and God of War are cross-gen is because they expected them out by now. Horizon was meant to be in the launch window for instance. Covid has screwed up a lot of plans and delayed a lot of products by a year or more, its just how it is. There is no Universe where Spider-man 2 was meant to be out.
$299 is way too expensive for almost nine-year old hardware. That gets you a Series S for Christ's sake.
Obviously, it's gotta go at some point, but one does that after there are no more major releases coming out, not before.
You're thinking insomniac went through all that trouble updating the other spider man games with ps5 features and releasing a ps5 only title only to go backwards by sticking with the ps4 for the next 2-3 years? The three devs you named haven't even released a game since the ps5 released.
I doubt it would make any difference. If Sony had made a console like the Series S, it would be out of stock as well, just like the actual Series S is.
Makes sense. PS4 has at least two more major exclusives slated to release this year as well as a lot of big third-party games. PS5 will still be the principal platform for Sony, but I think them slightly ramping up PS4 manufacturing is more of them adding a buffer for consumers who still can't get a PS5. This won't really disrupt the PS5 imo.
That's where I'm at. Wtf at this reaction? This is not a big deal. There's going to be late gen gamers jumping in still and a million is really not that much in the larger picture.
Has anyone here seen a new PS4 (or Xbone) in the last 6 months?
I'm shocked that we haven't seen a(n even) smaller PS4 (Pro) or Xbox One (X) to help bridge the shortage gap, like how the PStwo did with PS3. Then again, maybe those two do not want a repeat of the early PS3 days.
I'm shocked that we haven't seen a(n even) smaller PS4 (Pro) or Xbox One (X) to help bridge the shortage gap, like how the PStwo did with PS3. Then again, maybe those two do not want a repeat of the early PS3 days.
1 million PS4's are not a big deal. For context, all PlayStation consoles are produced long after their successor is released.
PS1: Stopped production in 2006
PS2: Stopped production in 2013
PS3: Stopped production in 2017
Sony is going to be producing PS4 consoles for a few more years at least. That will not affect their current game development plans.
PS1: Stopped production in 2006
PS2: Stopped production in 2013
PS3: Stopped production in 2017
Sony is going to be producing PS4 consoles for a few more years at least. That will not affect their current game development plans.
People are selling used PS4s for the same price as new in many cases.
If the situation with the PS5 supply doesn't improve I could see them extending PS4's lifespan way beyond that of PS2, which was 13 years. And EA would be then happy to publish Fifa [by any other name] in there as they have a bigger incentive to sell it there than they did when publishing FIFA 14: Legacy Edition in PS2.
How about a whisper silent, $200 ps4 pro? I might buy that.