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sully1311 said:


Oh right, didn't think they were allowed to do open them once they've been shipped. Guessing they've done this with the TF bundles as I've seen pictures of it which looks like a normal X1 box with TF card around the box.

Yup, the rep said the TF bundles were converted from excess stock too. I made a thread about it but XB fans couldnt handle it and it got locked. the mod said i can remake it but i have to not include the rep, say I noticed a resealed XB and think its from an original XB... but none of that happened



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Mummelmann said:
Not hard to find in Scandinavia. This sounds a bit over the top, what kind of baseline are they expecting here?


A mill a month easily if not more. 

on a different note, i can swear so many on here were so sure supply would be fullfilled in january, just wait PS4 sales will drop soon enough lmao.



Max King of the Wild said:
sully1311 said:


Oh right, didn't think they were allowed to do open them once they've been shipped. Guessing they've done this with the TF bundles as I've seen pictures of it which looks like a normal X1 box with TF card around the box.

Yup, the rep said the TF bundles were converted from excess stock too. I made a thread about it but XB fans couldnt handle it and it got locked. the mod said i can remake it but i have to not include the rep, say I noticed a resealed XB and think its from an original XB... but none of that happened

Fair enough, anyway derailing the thread.

 

Something must be going on if they cant equal supply/demand by Summer.



I had to buy mine used from a friend -- I have not seen any PS4s in my region in the last month. Online availability in Canada is null. :/



BeElite said:
Mummelmann said:
Not hard to find in Scandinavia. This sounds a bit over the top, what kind of baseline are they expecting here?


A mill a month easily if not more. 

on a different note, i can swear so many on here were so sure supply would be fullfilled in january, just wait PS4 sales will drop soon enough lmao.


I've litteraly been telling people since November there wouldn't be steady stock until probably March so they shouldn't have been surprised.

March was better for sure, but it looks like even I was a bit off as like I said apparently April is going to be rough on shipments. 



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BenVTrigger said:
I'll also add other retailers may be different, as again I'm not God and don't have any kind of all seeing eye. Maybe Wal Mart will recieve a higher allocation than normal, though from what I'm seeing I don't think that's the case.

I'm thinking April will probably be a good month for Europe similarly to how NA just had a huge amount of PS4's shipped in the last two weeks.

Who do you see being the leading console in the next few weeks?  I assume the One was crushing around Titanfall and hopefully PS4 will get boosted after Infamous.  How do you see the immediate future playing out?



NYANKS said:
BenVTrigger said:
I'll also add other retailers may be different, as again I'm not God and don't have any kind of all seeing eye. Maybe Wal Mart will recieve a higher allocation than normal, though from what I'm seeing I don't think that's the case.

I'm thinking April will probably be a good month for Europe similarly to how NA just had a huge amount of PS4's shipped in the last two weeks.

Who do you see being the leading console in the next few weeks?  I assume the One was crushing around Titanfall and hopefully PS4 will get boosted after Infamous.  How do you see the immediate future playing out?

Litteraly no idea.  

So much of PS4's current sales are coming from online retailers right now I quite litteraly have no idea what its sales look like, as they are pretty rare to keep in stock in the store.

Even March I'm not sure who won. I'm thinking Xbox One but depending on just how much sold from online retailers I could be wrong.

During launch I had a good grasp of the situation as everyone was getting stock.  But right now all of the retailers stock are fluctuating like crazy so who knows.



kowenicki said:

BS

it wasnt what you said, its how you said it.


Tell that to the MS rep. Didnt say anything that wasnt said by him. I translated one thing by reading between the lines.



All I know, is here in Canada it`s bone dry, even with the price increase.



It means they know they can sell what they make. It doesn't mean they know they'll sell out of consoles on day one. They know how many they produce a month and they know they can sell that many a month.



 

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