The Official March 2010 NPD Thread (Data for 5 weeks ending Apr 3 2010)

[Squilliam]

thelifatree said:

Squilliam said:

Oh jesus. Macro economic theory has nothing to do with the supply of PS3s.

The real reason goes something like this:

1. Components used to make the PS3 are in short supply.

2. Therefore Sony cannot make the PS3 in the numbers they want.

That's the same thing only simplified. yes. Surely theres enough resources to create more components to create more ps3's. Thus Sony would have to invest more money into creating components at a faster rate costing more money.

Nope.

They had production difficulties with their 45nm RSX chips. As it takes something like 10 weeks to get chips back from fabrication, they are pretty much supply limited by what chips they had at hand.