PS4 production will reportedly continue due to a shortage of PS5 consoles, it is claimed.
This new claim comes from a report by Bloomberg, which reports that Sony has apparently informed assembly partners that it will continue to make PS4 consoles until 2022. This apparently equates to roughly a million more PS4 consoles created during the year.
This, according to the Bloomberg report, is mainly because the PS4 requires a much less advanced chip to manufacture than the PS5. There has been no shortage of reports of shortages of advanced chips for manufacturing current-gen consoles over the past year, as both Sony and Microsoft have seen their manufacturing goals limited by a lack of components.
Until now at least, discless and standard versions of the PS5 console have been in short supply around the world. Resellers haven’t helped the console shortage, routinely pouncing on retail listings for PS5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles to buy new units, in some cases even using bots to get around queues and buy stock. even before they are put up for sale.
Still, this hasn’t stopped the PS5 from becoming the best-selling PlayStation console in history. In July of last year, Sony announced that the new generation console had surpassed 10 million units sold in just 248 days
