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Hyruken on 29 May 2010
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GreyianStorm said:
Hyruken said:
GreyianStorm said:
Hyruken, you're aware that the reported shortages are in the United States, right? Showing photos of the PS3 in stock in the UK does not mean the shortages in the US are imaginary.


On the contrary it does. Because if they are severly under-stocked in the US and severely over-stocked in europe then why have they not slowed down production for europe and transfered the stock to US? I am sure making a Pal PS3 into a US region PS3 is not too difficult, you would imagine it id done at the same factories.

Because by that logic it is like saying Sony are not aware of the demands for their product. Which would be stupid.

PS3s aren't produced and shipped in a day. It takes weeks to go from initial order to them reaching the shops. Sony also has to honour previous orders. Why would a shop in the UK willingly lose its order, just so that some shop in the US can get their PS3s early. It just doesn't work like that. It also comes down to separate sections of Sony. If SCEA only ordered x million for the Fiscal Year 2010, then they will go low on units if they hit that target early. That is the way business works.

Also "severly overstocked" in the Europe can't be assessed by looking at one shop. I know that many in my area (more than your 1 shop) have been low on/out of stock since Christmas. I'm not going to say that means all of Europe is low on stock though, but there are certainly areas even in the "severely over-stocked" European region that are suffering shortages.


Again i think your missing the point. It is not very complicated.

If Sony have had a supply problem in one region (in this case US) they can divert stock from one region to another. This is how selling works, they even came up with a business term for it called "supply and demand". If one area is in dire need of a product the company normally try's to lower production for one area to meet the demand of another. It is as simple as that.

What we see here and by the accounts of others there are stock in abundence. This is nothing new, people have been saying it for months now. I guess it takes months to build mass manafactured products right?