If you’re nonetheless having bother discovering a PS5 console – and inventory has massively improved in current months, to be truthful – you then’ll allegedly don’t have any points in 2023. A follow-up report from Insider-Gaming – which beforehand broke information of a slimmer PS5 mannequin with a removable disc drive – alleges that Sony will ship 30.5 million consoles in its subsequent fiscal 12 months, spanning April 2023 via March 2024. That’d mark a staggering improve on the 18 million items it expects to ship in its present fiscal 12 months.

One method Sony intends to enhance inventory is with the aforementioned revised mannequin with a removable disc drive. This will give shoppers extra flexibility, as they’ll select to buy a console with out an UHD Blu-ray slot and nonetheless decide to improve at a later date. It’ll additionally make manufacturing simpler, with manufacturing anticipated to start in April 2023 forward of a September 2023 launch. It’s rumoured that the removable drive will nonetheless slot into the console’s chassis, so whereas technically a standalone piece of {hardware}, it’ll look neat and tidy in the event you do determine to hook it up.

PS5 has bought off to a powerful begin, promoting 21.7 million items so far, however there’s a way that with out manufacturing points and the pandemic, it might have carried out even higher. It does really feel like Sony is in a little bit of a holding sample in the mean time, desperately ready for inventory to enhance earlier than it shares a glimpse of the longer term for the format. Assuming that’s the case, then 2023 might be a big 12 months.