PAL charts week 19 (2008), gta 4 second week

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DOATS1 said:

PS360ForTheWin said:
GTA will be 1 & 2 again in the UK, dont be suprised if PS3 overtakes 360 though, PS3 is out of stock on loads of websites, but all had 360 in stock.

i think it's more likely to do with the fact that microsoft and/or rockstar are able to produce and ship copies faster than their blu-ray-pressing counter-parts. as most uk charts still have the 360 version on top.

Possibly, but it doesn't change fact that PS3 version is selling out more than 360 (at least in some retailers in UK).  I've checked a few and all had some 360 (not many) copies while none had PS3 copies.  I spoke to one store manager and he said they get a delivery each day and PS3 is gone by lunch and (mostly) 360 by end of day.

What he couldn't confirm is whether they were ordering more 360 than PS3 or whether the store was ordering the same amount of units for each.

I'm more interested to see how this impacts sales vs demand visibility.  However well both 360 and PS3 sell in UK it seems likely that the sales for both will in fact be below the actual demand level due to out-of-stocks for both formats.

This could translate to a longer string of high sales week on week as each week will contain the previous weeks unfulfilled demand.