Boutros said:
RolStoppable said:
It's perceived as an attack because it strongly implies that there wouldn't be much demand otherwise. It's also an accusation that is pretty much exclusively thrown at Nintendo.
The link you provided here doesn't offer any more substance than current accusations, it only proves that the accusations date back to the NES era. Nintendo manages to create a hit because they do something new, then demand outstrips supply. Correctly and accurately gauging demand is not possible when there is no proper precedence for a product. People like to use the Wii as an example for artificial scarcity, but independent market analysts who do nothing but analyzing sales data had the Wii at 30m tops for its entire lifetime. Even the best analysts were off by a tremendous margin, so there can't be a reasonable expectation that demand could be correctly and accurately gauged for the Wii. For the NES, it's the same story. The home console market at the time was declared to be dead and to never return by market analysts.
I would be willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, if there were accusations that Sony is trying to create artificial scarcity with PS VR; not that I believe that, but people who love this theory should jump on it. But as things are, it's a one-way street.
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I haven't been following PSVR sales at all so I have no idea beyond assumptions but is there even that much demand for PSVR? I mean even if it was readily available I doubt it would sell that well anyway from what I've seen. Sony probably doesn't want to be left with overstock the way they were with the Move controller. As far as I know the Move controller was way overshipped and in a way the PSVR is to the PS4 what the Move was to the PS3 except way more expensive. So if Sony did create artificial scarcity with PSVR it absolutely didn't have the intended effects lol Did Sony even ship new units since it's been sold out?
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at my eb store the second lot of PSVR preorders due early 2017 sold out the minute they became available just from covering those on the preorder waiting list and apparently the 3rd shipment is headed that way and I was told that's nation wide in Australia.
