I do wonder what to make of crust being stuffed over the holidays.  All that cheese can't be healthy.

Anyhow, I am wondering if anyone maybe thought that they wanted to get ready for holidays.  Either that or corporate for Gamestop bungled where the shipments were going.

The managment was like

"Herro Sony, we no dat you need more sales bro-ski. We are generously accepting dat offa if you fund us for World Domination"

"Sure, make sure these shipments go to the right stores!"

"They well be equally distributed! Now we need 2 million more!"

"Why?"

"We need to bundle more unsold God of War Collections and get rid of Lair!"

Two points.

One -- talking with people at shops I know, the PS3 is not selling. So someone (higher up in the food chain, like at corporate HQ) probably miscalculated how many units would be needed.

Two -- I have seen other retailers, not just GS, with a ton of PS3 but few Wiis and Xbox 360s.

One way or another, Sony's shipping a lot more than what seems to be selling

Mike from Morgantown

I know there are a few posters I've seen here that work at Gamestop; I can't wait for them to come ITT because ignorance is astrounding. >__>

Sony does NOT care about vgchartz numbers. I doubt Sony even cares this site exists. Sony is NOT giving things way for "free."

The logical explanation is that Sony counts shipped to retailers as sold, and they are trying to hit their 15million mark. Whatever they're doing with Gamestop Inc or anyone else is FAR above my head, as I'm only an assistant manager.

But again, you're wrong about us "ordering from sony" and you're wrong about "ordering based on demand." Like I said, don't post things if you have no idea what you're talking about; like I said, I'm willing to make a ban bet.

My topic was merely speculation and to see if anyone else working at retail is experiencing similiar things, because I've talked about it to people locally but I do not know more outside from that. It's not normal to recieve tons of shipments on a product that we already have mass quantity of, even for Christmas.

Retail people. RETAIL.

They are selling of course, it's just the amount that's almost in-store is near those numbers. It doesn't look like it's going down because of other shipments.

And PSP does sell well, it just get's trumped by the DS. I sell PSPs all the time.

I know when I was working at EB games we always had a stack of 20 or so PS3s, but they come and go, always a constant supply.  In contrast we never had any Wiis (this was when everything sold as soon as they came in) and 360s would come in a few at a time, get close to selling out then we'd have more.  You say you had that stack of PS3s for a while, and they're not selling, but it sounds like your supply is selling, it's just getting replenished as fast as they sell (Unless you said your stack has been getting bigger since September then I misread.)

Every quater we hear Sony is overshipping, every quater Sony keeps shipping, when are these comapanies going to stop accepting these shipments. I thought they could return them.

1. Little bit of a joke, blink and you might miss it

2. Just like everyone other company in the world

3. So how does gamestop get ps3s? Magic? Clearly it must be some sort of voodoo if you don't order them from sony. 

4. Again, gamestop wouldn't be buying them if they weren't selling. If they had a huge stockpile of ps3s that weren't selling they wouldn't order more. Its business 101. And if for some reason they are sending so many ps3s to your store, why don't you tell them to stop? 

Well, you kind of get the picture.

Back in July, we had around 8-10 PS3's upstairs and none downstairs, and by the time they sold out we'd have more shipment. It's like a cycle. So it seemed small, but it was steady whichis good.

Over the months, we'd get more shipment then normal and our "stack" would get bigger. Now it's to the point that we have mass quantities. The thing is, it's not like PS3 isn't selling; it is. Sony's campaign is making sure of that. And also, Wii's and 360's are selling more (here and it seems all of America, according to this site). It's backwards-assed, and when I ask my manager things regarding this he shrugs his shoulders.

That might be the funniest thing ever, lol