Pachter: Kinect and Move Shortages are manufactured, Move didnt sell 2.5m

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TRios_Zen said:

psrock said:

I can understand Sony trying to spur demand, but how is MS doing that?  When he himself stated MS can't keep Kinect in stores and keeps supplying new shipment constantly.

And Move is in great demands, just not the bundles.

So what Pachter is saying is that Sony is deliberatly shorting supply of the single Move controllers, making only the bundles available, in an effort to spur demand of the higher priced sku.

Thus by "shorting" availability of the Move controllers, they are manufacturing a "demand" for them that they actually could meet.

He further compares them to Microsoft, stating that Microsoft is doing this same thing (stand alone cameras to bundles) but that they started doing it first, and that is why Sony is "following" them.

Please note, I've made no comment on my feelings on what he said, just trying to clarify what was stated, as it seems there are a few in this thread that are confused by it.

This actually makes some sense to me. It makes sense to try to increase revenues by driving people toward the more expensive bundle.

By the headline, I thought it was the old "they're ingeniously trying to sell more by not making enough" line that so many leveled against Nintendo. It was bullshit to say so about the Wii and it would be bullshit to say it about Kinect/Move.

But manufacturers trying to sell a few more bucks worth of software? That makes sense.