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It Might Have Just Got Harder To Buy A PS5 In India At Launch

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Bloomberg has reported that Sony has readjusted its estimates for PlayStation 5 production for this fiscal year, which ends on 31st March 2021. Sony has reduced the estimates from 15 million to 11 million for this period due to manufacturing issues. The AMD System-on-Chip (SoC) is having very low production yields which is greatly hampering PS5’s production.

This decrease in the number of consoles being manufactured will mean a lesser number of shipments to various markets that Sony caters to. Sony is facing fierce competition from both Nintendo and Xbox in its most important market, North America. Sony would be keen to fill the shelves with as many consoles they could during the all-important holiday session in North America. This would mean they would be diverting most of the PS5 consoles to North America leaving very few for other regions. With India being one of the lesser markets for Sony’s console, one can imagine that we will be getting far fewer consoles after this decrease in production.
Sony is trying everything to get the consoles on the shelves including using air freight for faster movement of the inventory. They might just go with a staggered worldwide release like the PS4. If that happens then India will be one of the last countries to get the PS5 officially.

With global pandemic, bad economic conditions, and border tension with China. It is a very bad time to be a gamer in India as hardware prices are soaring at the moment. Microsoft revealed the pricing of the next-gen Xbox consoles and as always Indians will end up paying much more than the west. Sony is holding a PlayStation 5 showcase tomorrow and we will most likely get prices and release dates for the PS5 and PS5 digital consoles.

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