{"id":28245,"date":"2023-01-06T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/sony-declares-playstation-5-shortage-over\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:13:39","slug":"sony-declares-playstation-5-shortage-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/sony-declares-playstation-5-shortage-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Declares PlayStation 5 Shortage Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Credit: Charles Sims\/Unsplash)<\/small><\/center>At CES 2023, Sony proclaimed an end to our long gaming nightmare. According to Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, the PlayStation 5 shortage is over. If you want a PlayStation 5, you should be able to buy one without waiting in an hours-long line or paying an obscene markup to a scalper.<\/p>\n

All types of gaming hardware became harder to find as the pandemic era began. On the PC side, cryptocurrency mining made an already constrained supply of graphics cards more expensive. It wasn\u2019t uncommon to see GPUs priced at thousands of dollars over retail. Game consoles didn\u2019t have the crypto problem, but the chip shortage slowed production, and scalpers devised schemes to siphon up all the available units to resell at higher prices \u2014 not GPU-high but often still double retail pricing.<\/p>\n

In recent months, it has become possible to purchase a PlayStation 5 from major retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, provided you don\u2019t mind waiting in a long virtual line or tracking restocks. Indeed, Ryan noted that Sony\u2019s production improved markedly toward the end of the year, living up to a promise it made in mid-2022<\/a>. The company has now shipped more than 30 million PS5 consoles. December 2022 was the biggest month yet for PS5 sales<\/a>, Ryan added. In Spring 2021, Sony had only managed to ship 7.8 million consoles.<\/p>\n

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Making the rounds on the internet, Ryan\u2019s claim seems mostly accurate. Walmart, Best Buy, and Target all have at least one or two variants of the PS5 in stock. Amazon also has stock, but it requires customers to request an invite and wait their turn. Over on eBay, the consistently high prices we\u2019ve seen over the past few years have started to drop. In late 2021, the PS5 sold for $800 on eBay, much higher than the $500 MSRP for the disc edition. Now, you can order a PS5 from eBay sellers for an average of $514.<\/p>\n

The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, just a few days after the Xbox Series S and X. It has offered a strong stable of exclusive games over the past two years, not that most people could play them. Microsoft has accelerated its purchase of publishers to beef up its game catalog, but its current-gen consoles have only sold about 20 million units so far.<\/p>\n

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