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PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Mafro** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:45 pm

Air freight is faster than sea, but more expensive.

Cutting insight.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by KK » Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:24 pm

Plot twist: they’re using Hermes.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **ITSMILNER** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:06 pm

Yodel

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Saint of Killers** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:12 pm

Both Hermes and Yodel are great round my way :lol:

DPD, too. They're all spot on. Worst I can say is, that, other than DPD, you never know just when they'll show up. Thankfully if my pre-order with ShopTo goes through, they'll be using DPD for release day delivery. You know, if I go ahead with buying the damn thing on launch :lol:

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by KK » Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:21 pm

Turns out Chris Grayling signed the contracts on behalf of Sony and they’ve currently got no planes, but I’m sure it’ll be fine by October.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Mafro** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:22 pm

Hermes have given a 2 hour delivery window for a while now. I always get a text or an email with it.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Saint of Killers** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:26 pm

How the heck did I forget that.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Skarjo** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:04 am

Mafro wrote:
Air freight is faster than sea, but more expensive.

Cutting insight.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Saint of Killers** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:36 am

Bloomberg sez:

Sony Corp. has cut its estimated PlayStation 5 production for this fiscal year by 4 million units, down to around 11 million, following production issues with its custom-designed system-on-chip for the new console, according to people familiar with the matter.

Also:

The full PS5 console may be priced as low as $449 while the slimmer digital-only version may dip below $400, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Masahiro Wakasugi.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **ITSMILNER** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:45 am

Could that be an issue with the chip itself? Or just they don’t have the means to make as many of the chips as they would have liked

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Saint of Killers** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:10 am

I don't think it's a capacity issue in that they can't make them because they're running at maximum. I think it's more likely to do with it being a custom chip and so the process isn't as efficient/straightforward as they expected. < wild guess

Should have bought a 1kg bag. I always regreat it when i buy the 500g one. Would expect more from a multi-national tbh.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Saint of Killers** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:44 am

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Should have bought a 1kg bag. I always regreat it when i buy the 500g one. Would expect more from a multi-national tbh.

Yeah?

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by KK » Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:48 am

Just checked my McCain bag, it’s 1.5kg. Can anyone top that?

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **ITSMILNER** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:06 am

Sony should have bought bags from Farmfoods, they are pretty cheap

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by KK » Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:13 am

That would have risked bumping into David Hasselhoff and his wife.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **ITSMILNER** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:14 am

Imagine the marketing though if you David Hasselhoff holding a PS5 chip :lol:

Going back to the issue with the chip, this is part of the reason I will be skipping launch models. In the back of my mind, with how this year has gone, what if there were issues and these first run of consoles ended up being this gens RRoD? That’s just me thinking negatively about it I guess :shifty:

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Jenuall** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:18 am

I think it's more likely issues to do with production which are pretty common - failure rates in chip production, particular anything using a new process or unique design, are relatively high. Combine that with the fact that manufacturing in general is down at the moment you are going to end up with a situation where they are just able to produce far fewer chips than expected.

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by **Victor Mildew** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:20 am

Imagine how much better a slimmed down ps5 in black is going to look :datass:

PostRe: ●PlayStation 5 by KK » Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:22 am

11 million consoles is still a lot to shift by March 21. I don’t know how many that compares to previous PS machines.

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