Global Up! - 26th November

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pezus said:

Donutsticks said:
I honestly doubt vgchartz ps3 numbers in the USA. Every retailer in america was carrying the same bundle with lbp3 and the ratchet and clank game and honestly the ps3 bundle was the hottest console on the market this year. every one of the stores in my area sold out of them in minutes. yet if the charts are to be believed only about 150,000 of that bundle was made. Did that mean that only maybe 5 bundles was sent to each store or something then?

Well, there could have been a limited supply of the bundle which is why you saw it being sold out. MS apparently shipped a lot of 360s for BF so they wouldn't run out (and it shows in the numbers )

While I do believe the PS3 was last on Black Friday, given the PR release, I don't think it was that far from the Wii's numbers.  VGC has the PS3 at 388,725.  Nintendo said they sold 500K Wii's just for Thursday night and Black Friday, which leaves ~141K (360 had slightly more) that were sold for the rest of the week.  I would imagine the PS3 would have around the same for the rest of the week.  So subtract 141K from the PS3's ~398K for the week, and you get 257K just for Black Friday.  Now Wal-mart has 4,288 stores in the US, including Sam's Club, and Target has 1,750.  That's ~6K between the both of them, which would give you an average of ~43 consoles per store.  That sounds like a pretty reasonable amount stock for the PS3 Holiday Bundle. 

The only problem is, there are many more stores that recieved those bundles.  When you count the thousands that went to Best Buys, to Game Stops, and to Radio Shacks, you are going to see that average number dwindle down into the 20s.  Then when you consider the thousands of others going to online retailers like Amazon, as well as the fact that not all the PS3s sold on Black Friday were the Holiday Bundle, that will probably drop those numbers into the low teens.  That just doesn't seem realistic to me.