While American imports of the console have increased significantly in recent months, there is still room for improvement.
The November 2020 release of the PlayStation 5 was hampered by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shortage of stocks. It doesn’t help the console situation that Sony has raised the price of the console almost everywhere except in the US, citing inflation. (And as the forint is sinking deeper and deeper, the console will become more and more expensive in Hungary. Now a PlayStation 5 Standard Edition costs around 230,000 forints and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will also slowly become 190,000.)
Insider Gaming to its sources refering to claims that after the supposed PlayStation 5 with a removable Blu-ray drive, Sony will prepare a stronger set during the next business year (April 2023 to March 2024). This new model is rumored to start production in April and hit store shelves in September. That doesn’t mean Sony will produce three types of PlayStation 5s, as production of the original pair will be halted by the Christmas period of 2023. The logic? Lower production cost. The removable Blu-ray drive is said to be $ 100. (We don’t dare describe it in HUF.)
Last month, Sony brought 7.5 million pounds of hardware to the United States, a significant increase from just 1.5 million the year before. In fact, it wasn’t just about the PlayStation 5, but the increase in hardware production will certainly affect the PS5 as well. This is supported by David Gibson, an analyst at MST Financial On Twitter. Sony imported 5 million kilograms in August, and some of the 7.5 million imports in September will surely go to the inventory accumulated for God of War: Ragnarok. Shared by Xboxos import also, which is similarly increased, but a nintendo Fig. Is not representative, as the Japanese company, unlike the other two, does not deliver by sea, but by air.
So Sony is starting to kickstart rockets, but is a PlayStation 5 with a detachable Blu-ray drive a good idea? Last time, SEGA did something like this with the 32X add-on, but it also optimized the SEGA Mega Drive in terms of hardware …
