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When And Where To Watch The PlayStation 5 Showcase In India

Last week Microsoft was forced to show all their cards since almost all the details on the Xbox consoles leaked online. Which only left Sony to reveal their plans for the PlayStation 5. Tonight Sony is all set to pull the curtains off the PlayStation 5. We are expecting to see the price and release date. But a lot of focus will also be on the games and hardware details.

Microsoft has already revealed almost everything about the next-gen Xbox. Microsoft is going with a two console strategy. A high-end console, the Xbox Series X, and an entry-level console, the Xbox Series S. With this strategy they can have the best of both the worlds. An expensive next-gen console and the world’s most powerful console. This would have put a huge amount of pressure on Sony to deliver a cost-effective yet powerful console in PlayStation 5.

A lot is expected from tonight’s event. If you live in India, you can catch the event on PlayStation’s Youtube channel at 1:30 AM IST. The video feed is already active and you can chat with other gamers who are already present there.

What can be expected from the event?

  • Price for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital consoles
  • Release date and launch titles
  • Pre-order start date
  • New exclusive games
  • Update on already announced games
  • Some PlayStation 5 hardware details
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It Might Have Just Got Harder To Buy A PS5 In India At Launch

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.