How is PS3 stock in your area?

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Metallicube said:

mightyERone said:

I know some people like that "New car scent",  "Got to have it in my hands now mentallity" but PS3 Has never Been in short supply even if autofficially applied.  It's called ONLINE shopping, Cotsco and B.J whole sale.  It's always been available at trickle cause no one really wants it (cept fans) and Euro Funds is higher than the U.S. dollar so it is always be in abundance in Europe.  If you really want one and you play games you CAN find it.  Enjoy..

Careful, don't tell that to the PS3 fans. They seemed to be opposed to facts, and will shoot you down, despite the absolute proof that PS3 has been available at amazon and many other online stores for months now.

I don't see how any logical person can possibly look at 45,000 sales a week and actually equate that to shortages. Especially when you consider that they've sold almost twice that in earlier months this year. Do people TRUELY believe that Sony just halved their supply out of the blue? Sony fans simply refuse to believe that PS3 sales are finally falling back down to earth, and will prbably still be using the shortage excuse even in August, when PS3 sales are still lagging. It immediately puts the poor PS3 sales off the hook.

If Sony IS really short on supply in the US, and only managing to ship 45,000 units in a week, then they are simply doing it on purpose. No multi billion dollar company could be somehow held back to only shipping that little consoles. And if they are, they sure won't be a serious competitor for long.

Actually, Amazon has been out of stock the vast majority of the time. What you see for sale are other retailers selling the system, often at much higher prices.

If the Wii suddenly started selling 45,000 units, it would be clear there is a shortage. Shortage does not mean nothing is selling, it means that sales aren't reaching their full potential, because demand is higher than supply. Sony can only produce PS3s as long as they have components. Once they hit the FY targets, they will be low on components. So, when they hit the FY target before March ended, they couldn't produce normal numbers of units to compensate for demand. Clearly sales of the console are going to slow in the summer, but that doesn't mean they aren't still influenced by lack of demand. The PS3 could have gone from selling 90k per week to 60k per week, which would still be a summer drop but without shortages.

If you're denying shortages, are you calling Sony, WalMart, Amazon, Gamestop etc etc liars? If so, just say that outright, that you are saying that every major retailer is lying.