PlayStation 5: A possible production problem causes Sony's shares to collapse

According to a recent report published by the well-known American portal Bloomberg, it would seem that Sony has production of PlayStation 5 systems slowed down output for this fiscal year of about 4 million, thus lowering the total production quota to about 11 million units. This alleged decline in the production of the new generation consoles has hit the Japanese company hard, which has been seen today, September 15 drop shares by 2,41% at the close of today's Stock Exchange session. According to the aforementioned report, Sony was forced to decrease the number of PlayStation 5 in production so drastically due to a problem with the System-on-a-chip custom for the console (also abbreviated to SoC in the IT field): that is a small, but fundamental circuit that manages to contain many essential components for the functioning of the console. According to Bloomberg, in fact, some employees who remained anonymous have confirmed that the main problem is due to the production of these SoCs, and that about 50% of chips produced since July are not performing well enough, thus being useless.

Even though it dropped by 4 million units, the number of 11 million systems produced for this fiscal year still remains the largest Sony has ever made for the launch of their console. If they really manage to reach this number of sales with PlayStation 5, we don't think this relapse on the stock market will be so critical for the company.

These words Kazunori Ito, financial analyst at Morningstar Investment Management Asia, to whom the editorial staff of the US network of CNBC turned to ask for clarification on this situation, after Sony itself refused to comment on this. So we just have to wait for the highly anticipated event PlayStation 5 Showcase, scheduled for the next one Wednesday 16 September at 22:00 in Spain to find out if this problem, in addition to having caused a serious waste of time and money in production, will also affect the release date of the next-gen console.