Why are PS5s still so hard to buy?

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Thing came out like a year ago. No closer to finding one than the day they released.

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Simply put, they’re in high demand.

At this point in its life, the PS5 has sold more units than the PS4 had sold at the same time, and that was one of the highest selling consoles of all time. Production isn’t slow on the PS5, but rather, demand is high.

Devices that require a significant amount of microprocessors, such as a PS5, or graphics cards, etc., are limited by how fast those chips can be made. There are very few facilities capable of doing it, and the ones that can are all at capacity all the time. They take orders years in advance. You can’t just flip a switch and boost production on PS5s, because so many other things need time on those supply lines — even modern cars need a significant amount of microprocessors.

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