According to information from Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki, who often roams around component suppliers involved in the production of consoles, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s instructions would be to manufacture one million PS4s in 2022, when the manufacturer had initially planned to put a end to the production of the machine on time. The goal would be essentially to ensure a minimum of presence on the shelves while the PS5 disappears in a few seconds from these same shelves. “Raising production orders by adding the cheaper-to-manufacture PS4 would also give Sony more leeway when negotiating with manufacturing partners to get a better deal.Bloomberg sources also say.
Playstations normally live for several years after the release of their successor, but the numbers are not misleading: Sony Interactive Entertainment clearly intended to stop producing new PS4s this year. In 2021, the manufacturer distributed 1 million PS4 between January and March, 500,000 between April and June and only 200,000 between July and September, the figure for the last quarter is not yet known. In most markets, the PS4 has even become increasingly difficult to obtain since the end of spring 2020, when the health crisis had exploded the consumption of everything related to video games.
The second best-selling home console in history with 116.6 million units sold, the PS4 still enjoys significant news in 2022 and not only for big games from third-party publishers like Dying Light 2, Elden Ring or Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin but also because the next three big cartridges from PlayStation Studios (Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7 and God of War Ragnarok) will also be available on PS4.
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