The OFFICIAL Feb 2007 NPD Thread

[jman8]

the ps3 was actually supply constrained for over a week in february, i kid you not. some of you may remember that i created a thread in february based off of itrackr.com in which i was wondering why PS3 supply dipped to below 30% national availibility. Supply held at this level for about 10 days until a major shipment came in and raised availibility to where it is now. So for about half the month the PS3 wasn't actually available at most retailers (remember that the NPD lumped the first week of february into the January figures). You also couldn't find it at most websites including the biggies like wal-mart, amazon, bestbuy, buy.com, etc. PS3s have only become truly ubiquitous since March. PS: For those who don't know what itrackr is, it is a website that tracks inventories of local stores for popular items such as PS3, Wii, DS, Tickle-Me-Elmo, Zune. They don't track some major retailers like Bestbuy or Walmart, but they do track Gamestop, Circuitcity, and Target, which would probably have similar levels of availibility as the stores that aren't tracked. Certainly this doesn't account for the 70,000 additional units analysts expected were going to be sold, but it definitely makes a difference. Let's wait a little longer to pronounce a time of death.