some anecdotal evidence:
When I want a game for my PS4, i go to my local stationary shop, that also sells games, on my way home after work. Usually they didn't even put it on the shelves on launch day. I always have to ask for them. Horizon was the first one that was already sold out when i got there.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







