Amazon U.S. February bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[peachbuggy]

drkohler said:

peachbuggy said:

I haven't checked personally but from what people have been saying, yes the PS4 has been going in and out of stock on Amazon recently. I have no idea of the cause though.

And I'll just repeat myself because of general weakness in math in the populace:

Sony manufactures 2.5M this final fj quarter. That is roughly 200k units per week. PS4 has been selling around 250k per week (probably even going up due to MHW for a few weeks) so there is a deficit of around 20% units which the stock laying around in stores has to cover. Amazon doesn't just have stock laying around because they can.... So statistically they likely get (at least) 20% less stock than what would be needed. That naturally leads to days when there simply are no units anymore.

Why are you even quoting me? I'm not disputing there are PS4 stock shortages on Amazon. If your assertion is correct then there would be shortages elsewhere also. I'm not aware of any, not that i've looked into it at all. As far as i'm aware, Sony has always been pretty good in the supply department. That's the only reason i commented on this particular situation. That and the fact that another user quoted me and asked me specifically about it. If i'm totally honest, i don't particularly care about your maths or numbers.