steverhcp02 said:
nightsurge said:
leatherhat said:
They can only ship as many as they produce, and I think the big successes over the winter months burned through the stock of slims they had produced. I don't think anyone, including sony, anticipated the demand for the 299 slim and now they're playing catch up. |
I'm sorry, but that's kind of bullshit. (pardon my language)
Sony had predicted to sell 13 million units for the year and that was only possible if the Slim + Pricecut hit as hard as it did. They got pretty dang close to hitting that 13 million (not sure when their fiscal year ends but from Jan 09 to Jan 10 they had 12.4 million sales). So as far as I can tell, they had planned for this big surge the whole time and maybe even OVER planned a bit so the shortages make even less sense considering what Sony themselves had expected.
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end of march 2010 is sonys fiscal year i believe. not sure how that changes the total, but id imagine it changes it closer to 13 million, ill check.
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Looks like ~12.8 million from End of March 2009 thru March 20th. So one more week and they will be pretty much right on ~13 million.
Still seems fishy to me though that if they planned for this target all along and are still perfectly in line with that target, they shouldn't be having shortage problems unless something else was happening with production (or they didn't think they would reach it?).
