The PlayStation 5 consoles.
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Sony’s PS5 production on track for holiday launch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony said the PlayStation 5 video game console is on track to launch during the 2020 holiday season.

The Japanese company made the announcement as part of its earnings release early this morning. Sony said that while PlayStation 4 hardware production had been slightly impacted by pandemic-related issues in the component supply chain, production is back to normal.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.