Kasz216 said:
Not because of demand though so much as Europe being relegated 3rd bannanna status.
Japan was the home of the majority of consoles, so they launched their first traditionally, followed by the US, the biggest, most important market, then the europe launch always came late, and since they had to still fill orders in the US and Japan which had been sold out... supply is down. So it's all a matter of stock and how much they produced. Which so far, Sony has produced a pretty impressive amount of consoles.
It could be they frontloaded the american market because it's the biggest and the one number that everyone will care most about... or it could be more even. We'll see. |
Yes, this gen, with the demise of analog video output and so the end of different PAL or NTSC versions, it's a lot easier to shift supplies where there is more request, but only if they aren't packed yet, I think packages different from a region to another, probably even from a country to another, but the number of preorders could have allowed Sony to roughly predict sales distribution, so yes, tit should be possible. Also, Xmas sales in EU start later and we haven't BF, in some countries like Italy we have Xmas markets, later, on 8th December, in some regions gifts are given to children on St. Lucy Day, 13th December, not to mention that just counting Italy, Portugal, Greece and Spain, at least 25%
of EU population is still in the middle of the crisis, so Xmas sales won't be at their best.
