Smashchu2 said:
thismeintiel said:
@ smashchu
The article you posted mostly proves me right. Their source says that a defensive strategy was "partly" the reason. Then he goes on further to explain how much MS could profit with the X-Box brand if they were to defeat and drive Sony out of the console market. On a smaller note, this is from the mouth of an analyst, not a MS exec.
You can post definitions from Wikipedia all you want, but that doesn't refute the fact that demand for the PS3 was higher. This latest fiscal year, Sony shipped 13 mil consoles, 3 mil more than the previous FY. If demand had stayed the same, 13 mil would have been more than enough. But, even with 3 mil more consoles shipped, it wasn't enough to keep a steady supply in stores.
As for the shortages on Amazon, they only just got those a day or 2 ago. When I posted my first message on here a day before that, they were only selling them from Target. It had been like that for weeks. And before that, they were selling them from WWD. Amazon themselves got a shipment more than a month ago and were out within a week or 2 (during that time PS3 was #1 in sales in the video game category), and were sold out until now. |
- It was someone interviewing a Microsoft excecutive. The 360 is a defensive strategy
- Oh Geez, you've got to be.......look, the fact is that demand is not increasing becuase price is decreasing. Think of it this way. Consumers don't want it more. They've always had this current demand for PS3s, but they could not realize it due to price barriers. When Nintendo releases software like New Super Mario Wii, people want Wiis more and will be willing to pay the same price for a greater quantity. All Quanity Demanded is the quanity sold at a set price level. When you lower price, you increase the quantity and this is quantity demanded. So far, Sony has never had an increase in demand
- They had stock since your first post. I checked.
Nah, I think it's just an excuse for PS3 not lightin' up the charts like the industry wants and expected. I do believe that there were definitely shortages created by holiday demand. But for us to be well into May (almost June) and Sony still can't keep up with "demand" is a little too ridiculous. The industry is just being apologetic towards Sony like it usually is.
It's hard to refute that when we see it all the time. Analyst bend the truth to make it look better then it is (Malstrom has pointed out a lot of them).
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demand is fluid. There is not simple set number for what the demand of a system is. People can make graphs and do supply and demand curves but those are estimates for a moment in time. To act like the demand line is rigid and that the price change is the only reason more sel ignores any other factor that can change demand.
Advertising changens it
the state of the economy changes it
more adaption of blue ray changes it
it's not something you can just say it's the same or it's different. You can think that most of the change in how many people buy is soley because of the change in price but that would be missing everytihng eles. Maybe this year games that people have been wating for came out. and the demand goes up.
The idea that people think gamestop would lie about being short of stock to make it look better for sony seems way out there than compair to the idea that demand for the product went up a little more than Sony expected so they are a little short when they are switching from one chip type to another.
