According to a recent report published by the well-known website Bloomberg, it would seem that Sony has slowed the production of PlayStation 5 systems coming out for this fiscal year by about 4 million, thus lowering the total production quota to about 11 million units.
This alleged decline in the production of new generation consoles has hit the Japanese company hard, which today saw its shares drop by 2.41% at the close of today’s trading session.
According to the aforementioned report, Sony was forced to decrease the number of PlayStation 5 in production so drastically due to a problem with the customized chips for the console (also abbreviated to SoC in the IT field): that is a small, but fundamental circuit that manages to contain many essential components for the operation of the console.
According to Bloomberg, in fact, some employees who remained anonymous have confirmed that the main problem is due to the production of these SoCs, and that about 50% of the chips produced from July to today do not have a sufficient yield, therefore being useless.
So we just have to wait for the highly anticipated PlayStation 5 Showcase, scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday 16 September to find out if this problem, in addition to causing a serious waste of time and money in production, will also affect the release date of the next-gen console output.
