Swoosh2000 on 25 December 2008
January stock gets cannibalized by December of course. They're going to sell 3 million in the US in December alone.
Of course they're not going to have a huge stock for January. Even if they did, they'd be stupid to ship a ton of units to retailers in January, they'd just clog retail channels, especailly with the US economy in the crapper.
That's not creating "artificial shortages", that's just proper inventory management.
You simply don't ship a lot of product in January, it's not done. Even the PSOne/PS2 atback in the day would not have a ton of inventory in January.
