Right now, getting a PS5 is incredibly difficult While buyers are still struggling to find systems, Sony seems to be doing its best to at least somewhat alleviate the restocking woes plaguing retailers

In fact, if new reports are to be believed, PS5 inventory may be coming back in the coming months

The report claims that Sony plans to ship between 168 and 18 million units in 2021, and that this will be possible after the supply flow of units increasesAccording to Digitimes, Sony initially shipped 34 million PlayStation 5 units in the first month of launch The company said that it had

This number is expected to increase significantly in the future, thanks to the greater availability of the components needed to produce the PS5 This means that PS5 restocking could be in full swing, which will hopefully put an end to the need to buy systems from duffers and chase 24-hour alerts that they are in stock

According to Digitimes, AMD, which provides custom 7nm CPUs for the PS5, has secured additional capacity from semiconductor foundry TSMC to boost production This will increase monthly production by 40-50% to 14-15 million units in 2021 This is 1 million more units than will be produced in 2020, and will certainly help to at least slightly reduce demand for the PS5

The CPU is based on AMD's Ryzen Zen 2 architecture and the GPU is a Radeon RDNA2 China's Tongfu Microelectronics and Taiwan's Silicon Precision Industries will split the back-end manufacturing duties 70:30 Thanks to these additional components, Sony plans to introduce more PS5s in Asia after January 2021, which will undoubtedly help ease the frustration felt by buyers worldwide at not being able to participate in the latest generation of gaming consoles

Earlier reports indicated that Sony planned to ship 10 million PS5 units by March 2021 Previously, Sony had only planned to ship around 5 and 6 million units by March, but changed course due to increasing demand

With additional components to get more PS5s on store shelves and into the hands of customers, more users will finally be able to experience the PS5 firsthand; a review of the PS5 gave it 45 stars and called it "the future of console gaming"

"If you can get your hands on a PS5 now, know that you are in for a true next-gen experience with advanced haptics, beautiful graphics, and very little friction between you and the games you want to play

If Digitimes' sources are correct, feelings of "somehow" getting a PS5 may perhaps soon be a thing of the past