A stupid question: even if there are pressures that keep producers from selling at the true market price, why don’t they produce enough to meet demand at the lower price they do sell at?
A deliberate strategy to build hype by making consoles scarce? Something else?
There’s currently a global shortage in computer chips, which limits the amount of PS5s that can be manufactured. Presumably Sony is churning them out as fast as it can (see e.g. sxae’s comment elsewhere) but that is slower than everyone would like.
The recent extreme shortage was also caused in part by trade disruptions due to the Ever Given crisis, but I assume that’ll work its way out of the system fairly soon.
A stupid question: even if there are pressures that keep producers from selling at the true market price, why don’t they produce enough to meet demand at the lower price they do sell at? A deliberate strategy to build hype by making consoles scarce? Something else?
There’s currently a global shortage in computer chips, which limits the amount of PS5s that can be manufactured. Presumably Sony is churning them out as fast as it can (see e.g. sxae’s comment elsewhere) but that is slower than everyone would like.
The recent extreme shortage was also caused in part by trade disruptions due to the Ever Given crisis, but I assume that’ll work its way out of the system fairly soon.