@ Leo-J and others:
The mistake you guys make is that you assume shortages are the only thing that stops the PS3 from selling an insane amount of units. Yes, there are shortages but the thing isn't sold out like the Wii was in 2007. You can still find a Playstation 3 and as some people pointed out the God of War release week was the only week when sales dropped because of supply issues.
You guys assume this is the same situation the Wii was in in 2007 / 2008. But the Wii demand was caused by huge, mainstream games that are still selling well today (games that sold more than 10 million units lifetime so far) while the PS3 demand was caused by a number of frontloaded titles that won't affect demand for more than 3 weeks. The Playstation 3 just got Final Fantasy XIII, God of War III and Heavy Rain - the current demand is caused by these 3 titles, not the general excitement about the system.
So basically, sales will drop off after some weeks because those titles won't have the legs most Wii games do.
I agree the PS3 will sell well this year but reading your posts it sounds like the whole world was in a Playstation 3 rush and the only thing holding the system back are severe supply constraints. But sales won't just magically increase because Sony ships some more units. The current spike in demand was caused by all those big games releasing only weeks after each other, not by some sort of general PS3 hype.
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