PS5, 12 hours to sell as much as PS4 in 12 weeks: Sony happy but also scared

Source: HW Upgrade added 30th Oct 2020

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Less than a month to go before the debut official PlayStation 5, what we can consider the most requested platform of the 2020. That’s what Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, who shares data on the console’s pre-orders suggests: there is good and worrying news.

by Pasquale Fusco published , at 21: 01 in the Videogames channel

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IS well known: like the new RTX 30 from Nvidia or the rival Xbox Series X, the new PlayStation 5 is one of the most desired products of the year. Sony , however, has released some more details on the current statistics related to the presales of the next-gen console and, as expected, the numbers are staggering. The Japanese company declares that, in 01 hours, I am as many PS5s as PS4s have been pre-ordered in the first 12 weeks, at least for the US market.

PlayStation 5 conquers the USA. .. but stocks will be enough?

To spread these encouraging data is the same Jim Ryan , CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, who spoke about the first, incredible results obtained by PS5: “The demand expressed by the quantity of pre-orders has been very, very remarkable” .

We specify that the aforementioned statistics relate exclusively to pre-orders , both in the case of PS5 and in that of PS4. It remains a rather relevant detail, we remember after all that Sony has sold more than 110 millions of PlayStation 4 since November 2013 to this part.

“Jim Ryan says that the company has pre-sold as many PS5 units in the first 12 hours of availability as it did in the first 12 weeks for the PS4. “

” It may be that not everybody who wants to buy a PS5 on launch day will be able to find one, “Ryan sayshttps : //t.co/vnT9KqGvRL

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Ryan, however, was also rather worried as regards the units available under l ancio: “Chances are that not everyone who wants to buy a PS5 on launch day will be able to find one” . The president of SIE explains that his company is working hard to ensure sufficient supplies for the year-end shopping season. Not surprisingly, then, US retailers would have decided to cancel some of the pre-orders placed by users.

In any case, PlayStation 5 will be available in the US and other countries from 12 November. Italians will have to wait until 19 November , the day the next-gen console will be sold in two different versions, one equipped with an optical drive (499 €) and one dedicated to digital games (399 €).

Among the launch titles we will find exclusives such as Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls and ambitious third-party games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and DiRT 5. Absent Cyberpunk 2077, initially scheduled for 19 November and postponed, a few hours ago, to the next 10 December.