Sony Is Dealing With PlayStation 5 Shortage by Making More PS4s (bloomberg.com) 31
Sony will continue producing PlayStation 4 consoles throughout 2022 as it navigates disruptions to the global supply chain that have limited output of its pricier PlayStation 5. Bloomberg reports: The Japanese conglomerate, whose flagship PS5 console has been in scarce supply since its debut in November 2020, told assembly partners late last year that it would continue making its earlier-generation machine through this year, according to people familiar with the matter. While Sony never officially announced when it would stop making the PS4, it had previously planned to discontinue assembly at the end of 2021, they said, asking not to be named as the plans are not public.
The strategy would add about a million PS4 units this year to help offset some of the pressure on the company's PS5 production, a figure that will be adjusted in response to demand, the people said. The older console uses less advanced chips, is simpler to make and provides a budget-friendly alternative to the PS5. Increasing production orders by adding the cheaper-to-make PS4 would also give Sony more leeway when negotiating with manufacturing partners for a better deal, two of the people said.
The strategy would add about a million PS4 units this year to help offset some of the pressure on the company's PS5 production, a figure that will be adjusted in response to demand, the people said. The older console uses less advanced chips, is simpler to make and provides a budget-friendly alternative to the PS5. Increasing production orders by adding the cheaper-to-make PS4 would also give Sony more leeway when negotiating with manufacturing partners for a better deal, two of the people said.
I'm looking forward to seeing (Score:3)
Mostly I just want to know that if my 580 dies (knock on wood that doesn't happen) I'm not stuck going back to my old GTX 660.
Point is, I'm happy to see companies doing what they can to keep gaming going.
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For a moment there, I thought the first post guy was talking to himself.
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You mean like this?
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Exactly!
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Welcome to modern Slashdot discourse where one of our most infamous trolls managed to piss off some other trolls who made some 10+ different accounts with the same name for ... honestly I don't know why. I can make more sense of children arguing in a sandpit than whatever motivated this idiot to get a hateboner for rsilvergun hard enough to impersonate them.
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Wow. You are a fucking supposed socialist and Marxist. Why are you so interested in baubles produced by hyper capitalist corporations?
Have you read any works by Karl Marx? The underpinning philosophy is dialectic materialism [wikipedia.org]. The measure of a successful policy is its ability to deliver the goods to the people.
You are such a FUCKING hypocrite, rsilvergun.
No, there is nothing hypocritical about a Marxist wanting stuff. In fact, getting stuff is the whole point of Marxism.
Disclaimer: I have no idea whether rsilvergun self-identifies as a Marxist. ISTM that rslivergun tends to advocate a lefty version of European social democracy, not actual Marxism.
Re: I'm looking forward to seeing (Score:4, Insightful)
No, there is nothing hypocritical about a Marxist wanting stuff. In fact, getting stuff is the whole point of Marxism.
Yet that is one of the many promises that marxism has failed to keep. Consistently.
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Yet that is one of the many promises that marxism has failed to keep. Consistently.
That depends on your definition of 'delivering', really. Capitalist economy optimizes to maximize the average global production level but it doesn't guarantee that any one individual will get any of those;* while communism provides a floor-level optimization where it aims to improve the material conditions of those worse-off.
I.e. in a capitalist economy, if you look for the person who is in the worst shape of all, their condi
Re: I'm looking forward to seeing (Score:2)
Marxism or any 'utopian' system never works on a countrywide level because it depends on everybody falling in line and cooperating. Inevitably, you have people who don't go with the flow (by the millions) and thus those people end up being 'cleansed'/sent to labor and death camps. Of course, people are selfish greedy bastards so they game the system to enrich themselves and become super powerful though theoretically everyone is the same.
This is why communism never works.
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Marxism doesn't even work on a small scale. All those hippy communes started in the 60s died out because some people wouldn't do their fair share. The people doing most of the work keeping their micro-community running finally got sick of that shit and left.
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This is not always the case, and when a small commune fails the damage is minimal.
But it never works on a scale involving millions of people, and these huge 'communes' inevitably fail with catastrophic results.
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Um... Because I'm a capitalist? (Score:2)
Also I'm flattered you copied my name. It's not every
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Semi-off topic to the thread (which was never on topic), I've been curious if the "r" stands for radiant as in Radiant Silvergun? As a non-stalker I never really saw a chance to ask, but given the crazies are out in force generating unrelated threads, yet this is a game related topic, it seems just barely relevant.
If your name is game related, are you a shmups fan, a treasure fan or just a gamer who picked the name for a game you happened to like? Purely curious given it isn't every day you see someone re
Yep :) (Score:2)
I'm playing Game Tengoku Paradise right now though so it might be a little while. The PC port of that is fantastic.
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I had not heard of Game Tengoku Paradise before, so that's pretty cool. I've never beaten RS or Ikaruga either, but I think they are both fantastic games. Personally I tend more towards the Saturn RPGs like Shining Force 3, Dragon Force and PDS. Perhaps related to RS, I also love the rails shooters like Panzer 1-2. There is something really interesting in how the graphical system rendered using non-triangle polygons that just makes that era different looking. In some ways, I miss that look purely becau
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Mostly I just want to know that if my 580 dies (knock on wood that doesn't happen) I'm not stuck going back to my old GTX 660.
Huh? This is a story about Sony still offering their previous generation gaming console, because their current gen one is somewhat made of unobtainium at the moment. What the hell does that even have to do with availability of a replacement GPU for your PC? (Unless you're planning on jumping ship on the whole "PC Master Race" thing)
With the current generation of consoles basically requiring you to buy more expensive SSD storage almost immediately, it's no longer quite as pleasant being a filthy console p
more stats (Score:1)
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yup we are all wanting new video cards and motherboards thanks to microcrap windows os.
The video card shortage is due to the ongoing global supply chain issues resulting from Covid-19, and the scum of the Earth crypto bros. You know that troll who constantly posts about beating liberals? I say we take his suggestion, but for crypto miners instead. Due to the way crypto mining automatically adjusts the difficulty to fill the available resources, it wouldn't even cause a shortage of shitcoins for greater fools to waste their money on.
We'd get entertainment, greater availability of video card
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Shitcoin needs to die.
I wonder how many truckloads of graphics cards were outright stolen so organized criminals can build their "mining rigs"? I say quite a few.
That's what the latest tulip mania does is empower organized crime and destroy the enviroment.
Shitcoin needs to die. "Meet the new boss, even shittier than the last boss."
Still playing my PS4 and loving it (Score:2)
Graphics which I can't tell are better?
Less games than PS4 ?
The only thing that gets my interest is faster loading screens.
Not interested.