landguy1 said:
Baalzamon said:
landguy1 said:
STUFF....STUFFFFFFFF....STUFFFFFFFFFFF!
This is based on my own personal travels, but i travel for a living. I have been traveling throughout the upper midwest regions of the US. I like to hit all the local stores for various reasons as I travel. I have seen very few 360's during the first 3 weeks of January, but have seen that change the last week or so. But as far as the PS3 goes, STUFFF!!!! At one Best Buy alone, they had PILES/Stacks of them. I thought it odd, so i tried to count and they had atleast 150 of them just stacked on the floor. I could have thought that was an anomoly, but 2 days later at another Best Buy, they had something similar(at least 100 ). I also went to a local walmart after going to the second Best Buy and they don't put their stock out on the floor. I was talking to the guy that works in the electronics area and he said they had a massive pallet full in back, and that they had it since before christmas. This is only a small sample of the number of stores that i went to, but i will tell you that just about all of them were similar.
Again, this isn't everywhere. Just my own experience. No, Sony did not lie about their shipped numbers, that's for sure.
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andddd I'm calling bull shit. I've never in my lifetime seen 150 PS3's on the floor of a retailer outside of the holiday season. You're full of shit.
EDIT: This post has been moderated for flaming. -d1
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I am not trying to create a flame war, but the facts are the facts. I do however agree that it seems that this argument gets played out every January the last few years. If the channel is this full universally(unknown), i would guess that Sony has some good deals coming real soon through the retailers. Why else would they proclaim that they expect to ship the amount for their stock guidance. Or, like I said, this is just a regional anomaly(kind of unlikely but possible).
We will see in about 3-4 weeks... That's when they aftermath ads hit. These are the overstock items that all of the retailers get the manufacturers to give them ad dollars and back end sales deals to help push out of the channel. It is usually a 6 week gap from idea to the actual print ad. I would guess that by Jan 15th, the writing was on the wall for any item that didn't move fast enough to get this moving...
Like i said, we will see......
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actually, the deals have started, I've been seeing a bunch of $50 gift cards and or a free game coming with PS3's lately, so it could have something to do with that.
