It seems fair to say that pre-orders for the PlayStation 5 have gone well, as Sony admits not everyone will get one on launch day.
It’s only a couple of weeks now till the release of the PlayStation 5, and Sony has described the demand for pre-orders as ‘very considerable’.
‘It may well be that not everybody who wants to buy a PS5 on launch day will be able to find one,’ PlayStation boss Jim Ryan told Reuters, as he insisted that Sony is ‘working as hard as we ever can’ to meet demand for Christmas.
Initial pre-orders for the PlayStation 5 sold out within about 30 minutes at most stores and have only reappeared intermittently since then.
More stock should be available at launch day on November 19 (November 12 outside of Europe) but, again, it’s likely to be very limited.
Almost all consoles sell out at launch – even the Wii U managed to – so that’s not really much of an achievement but according to Ryan just as many PlayStation 5 consoles were sold in the first 12 hours in the US as in the first 12 weeks for the PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation 4 is the second-best selling home console of all-time (behind the PlayStation 2, which it is unlikely to catch up to) so if the PlayStation 5 continues to outperform it then Sony will be doing very well indeed.
Although the Reuters interview was brief Ryan alluded to the idea that Sony may be interested in buying up other developers to further bolster its first party stables, ‘with selective M&A [mergers and acquisitions]’.
This is likely driven by Microsoft’s declaration that it will be looking to do the same, which suggests that the next generation will see increased between the two companies, and perhaps others such as Google and Amazon, to buy up talented independent developers.
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