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MaxwellGT2000 said: I didn't ask for links about users talking about 360 shortages, I was asking for the PS3 users claiming there were PS3 shortages in June of last year... otherwise I'm lead to assume you're just making it up, it doesn't add anything to discussion, I told Carl that, and it's not fair to him if he's the only one that needs to respect the content rule. And thank you for actually providing some proof from a more credible source than twitter, I'm going to follow through and read up on it, the only thing is like other posters brought up multiple sources claims shortages when Wii was out and when PS3 was out, from stores to the companies themselves, the story you provided me said they had to cut their outgoing shipments for Jan and Feb, but it doesn't mean that limited supply isn't meeting the post holiday demand. It's like thats the first step to showing they're selling out, second step is some retailers saying they can't keep the system in stock, but from the sound of it that might only be an issue in other countries. It's like this when Nintendo and retailers said the Wii was sold out, it was sold out in many stores in my area as well, when it happened with PS3 it happened here as well but not to the level of Wii of course and sales reflected that, and now there's sparse words from MS saying supply is limited, but retailers aren't reporting sell outs and I can easily find a 360 anywhere in my area, so what would you have me believe, a couple of people online or what the evidence has lead me to believe? Supply isn't as much as they wanted out there but retailers aren't reporting sellouts. |
Ok, my bad. Let me clarify: I was referring to PS3 zealots REFERRING to the shortages still in June, not them saying that there were still shortages. I could've worded it more clearly and that's my fault.
The thing is, as I read what you typed, it still comes off as someone that doesn't want to believe what Microsoft has stated more than once. Based on what you said, will we have to wait until January and February NPD reports to hear what retailers have to say about the tight supply chain? What if they choose not to comment on them, does that make them any less real?
MS has given very solid reasons why there are shortages that make a lot of sense, not some wild reasoning. In fact, I remember reading (spent a sec searching but couldn't find) back in September or October something about MS decreasing 360 production for some reason (if someone knows what I'm talking about please link) for early 2011. If that was the case, it only substantiates the shortage issue due to the unexpected increased demand from Kinect.
BUT I think its important that this not turn into a "sales would be much higher if not for the shortages" thing like it did last year. That got so annoying but it happened for almost half of the year with little to no repercussions to those that did it. I don't want to see that here from the 360 zealots because with the large number of PS3 participants in this community it would only turn into a bigger mess than last years was. Hopefully this gives some insight into why I was so vocal and impassioned about this NOW...
