| JGarret said: Hey MM476...are those stories about PS3 shortages real (at least based on what you´ve seen) and would they heavily play a factor into the 360 outselling the PS3?....or is it simply a case that the 'Slim factor' wore off in the U.S. and it´s back to more people just wanting a 360? |
We're having pretty bad issues with both those and Wiis nationwide. About a month ago we actually started allowing people to reserve the two consoles at GameStops to guarantee they get one. Last week they removed the option from the system, because it got to a point where some people were waiting damn near two weeks just to get a system. We were getting 5-8 reserves a week for ps3s, but at best only one shipment of three consoles.
And it's annoying because some people decide to wait a few days before coming to pick up their system after we get them in. We had a ps3 sitting in the back for ~3 days this past week, and as a result we showed up on GameStop's website as having ps3s in stock. People were coming in fairly often asking if we had any systems, because "the website said you did."
Even online they're still very hard to find. They're currently backordered on GameStop.com, and on Amazon they're being sold by a secondary seller with a $70 markup.
As for how much it's effecting the ps3's total sales, I really can't say. Demand seems abnoramlly high at the moment, but that's mainly because systems have been so scarce. It's selling about 90k a week in the US, and lets say there are 20k people on average struggling to find systems. Only one week with an abnormally high shipment would fulfill that demand, and it could even out around 90k after that anyway. Or it could not. It could just be pent up demand from the holidays and early January on top of a rather high weekly interest that's causing the issues, or it could be that there are simply more than 90k new buyers are looking for systems every week.
My gut says it'd be topping 100k weekly if there was enough stock floating around.
