The PlayStation 5 has had its ups and downs since its release. By far the biggest blow has been the coronavirus, which has left Sony without chips for its consoles. This led to an acute shortage of consoles, with some players waiting for their console for over six months. At the end of the summer of 2021, the situation was slightly better, but still not ideal. Analyst David Gibson tweets how consoles worked in the US from September 2021 to the same month of 2022.
Lots of reports of improved PS5 shipments over the past few months, but no data so far. US import data confirms that Sony Interactive’s (PlayStation) shipments are up 400% year-on-year in September. Yes, you read it right. Some of this will definitely go into your GoW launch inventory. #PS5 pic.twitter.com/SvC6xTPQxs
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) October 11, 2022
The increase between the individual years was 400%. This is due to more games coming out, greater availability, and Christmas and other discounts and sales, Gibson said. Only such a God of War Ragnarok will help. You need to accept data from an analyst with a grain of salt. None of the companies (Sony or Microsoft) release official data, so we can only give a rough estimate.
With Nintendo? Not as good as it seems since September -59% y/y BUT the company is ramping up production and using airfreight (this data is seafreight) so may not be as bad as shown #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/X7OYWTSixK
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) October 11, 2022
The Xbox hasn’t been forgotten either, with orders for the latest generation of Xbox Series X and XSS up 89%. But he adds in the same breath that strong paper on paper has been a relatively unavailable commodity lately, at least in the US. As for Nintendo and its Switch, here sales fell even by 59%. However, the company is increasing the number of units produced.
Source :Indian TV
