Gamestop quarterly results conference call "PS3 out of stock 80% of time"

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GreyianStorm said:

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).

Do you accept that they do not have it in stock now?

Daaaang.  They had it in stock for 1, maybe 2 days and now they are out again.  (No use arguing with Smashchu2...he will simply say you can still buy it for 299.99 and say its completely normal for items to say "takes 2-4 weeks to ship."  It's not because they are out, its just because they are really slow at shipping PS3's because...well...they're big boxes?).