Uh, its the biggest shopping week of the year with Christmas in a few days. Better to have plenty of stock than to have too little. Remember last year? "Sony losing some sales to Microsoft! Stupid Sony should have had more stock in the US!"

Its the opposite this year. People will always find something to complain about.

For the most part, people want the latest and greatest for their children?

The funniest video I ever saw was one of the "still buying Wii because all those cute icons thingy" years when two boys opened up their nice new Wii and blandly looked at their father (who was video taping them) who thought that giving them a WII was just what they wanted when PS3 and XB had just come out.  I don't know if it was staged or not but it totally underscored what children want.   Other than the "I gotsta have what (whoever) has"  they usually want what's NEW.

What 'bundles' are we talking about? Because the only real official bundle, the PS4 Black Friday GTA V/TLOU bundle is pretty much extinct in the wild.

My GameStop has been routinely selling out of all PS4s on a weekly basis, so maybe it's a Best Buy thing.

Well, it's not like the PS4 isn't selling well so having extra stock in America isn't going to hurt them that much. Sure, the retailers might not like having so much extra stock for a few extra weeks to months but I don't think they're worried about it not selling out. And they seem to have enough to give to the other countries as well (as far as I know. I haven't heard of any major shortages). As people have said, the PS4 is selling well and the extra stock will be sold before the dust settles onto the boxes so I think this isn't an issue.

It's not like PS4 struggles to sell, they'll get rid of that stock.

Yea great idea, any time any one threatens you to censore your self, you should go running with your tale between you legs.

However I understand they didn't have much choice but the whole decision was pathetic, The Theaters should be ashamed. They should have stuck to their guns. I would have went just because of the threats.

Ok, sense you gave us a update from One store out of many thousands, We are going to need you to stop at every store in your state, Include pictures and news paper for creditability.

Thanks, you better get started. Anecdotal evidence will show exactly how this will play out.

They might as well have said, "Yup, intimidate us and watch us fold like a house of cards."

This isn't over.  Precedence has been set here that serious things like ISIS are probably just slobberying to see.(for new soft targets)

Im just curious as to how its Sony's fault? The theaters refused to show the movie. So they can release it to half the theaters and lose half the potential sales. Or they can wait a little bit till these theaters get their shit together. They are trying to make money not send something out there to cost them on top of whatever this email shit is going to do. They also stated they were considering releasing it on directTV and other services which is what it is. 

Fact is the whole industry stood by while all this was going down. No other studios said anything. The motion picture association said nothing. The theaters bailed. So whats Sony to do...

I didn't say it was their fault.  I said the IMAGE that people were getting was that this was Sony's fault.  The theatre chains are the ones who are behind this and you sort of see their point when you picture a couple hundred people getting loaded full of nails and screws from some ISIS scumbag who can't afford a plane ticket to Jordan.

Sony however could have made this better by throwing the middle finger and releasing it.   Them trying to profit from this at this point feels morbid to me.  As in everyone and their dog is going to want to watch "the movie that (apparently) made Sony cave after they got hacked".   

The way I see it they have 2 choices and still come out looking good...

1.  stream it to everywhere.  For free.   With a "feck you North Korea blurb in the credits".  (They do this and i'm buying Sony stock tomorrow.  And maybe one of those $500 Sony dogs that does almost nothing.  And maybe upgrade my 60" Samsung 4K for a 78" Sony 4K.)

2. can it forever and make sure it NEVER gets out.  let the whole thing mosey off into the sunset (and try to forget that one of Sony's main system administrators has the same password on like 11ty million servers.)