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Squilliam on 12 February 2010

Sony: We predict we'll ship 13M consoles in the financial year.

Sony: We're have shortages because of unforseen demand.

WTF??!!



Tease.

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DaBuddahN on 12 February 2010
Squilliam said:

Sony: We predict we'll ship 13M consoles in the financial year.

Sony: We're have shortages because of unforseen demand.

WTF??!!

Haha. Yeah that is kinda funny. But of course, shortages can have many reasons. Maybe a batch of components are defective, and they need to order new ones, etc. These things happen. Nonetheless, Sony is well on its way to shipping 12mil PS3's this fiscal year. 

Whatever the case with Sony's shortages, at least one good thing came out of this... People advocating the PS3 had shortages finally have evidence and a strong source... Although, I believe all the stores that didn't have the 120GB model was more than enough evidence.  I live in Puerto Rico, and Gamestop told a friend of mine a week ago that there weren't anymore PS3's on the island (at least in GameStops). 

All in all, this makes much more sense than the stupidity being thrown around in threads recently. People (VGC members) are now going from "THE PS3 IS NOT UNDER-TRACKED! Sony's financial statements are misleading!!!" to "Well... it maybe under-tracked, we just don't know where".  



ps3-sales! on 12 February 2010
morenoingrato said:
So they won't be ready for "Sony's March"

How is this not trolling?



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Grimes on 12 February 2010
Squilliam said:

Sony: We predict we'll ship 13M consoles in the financial year.

Sony: We're have shortages because of unforseen demand.

WTF??!!

 

Damn, you caught them red handed.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

makingmusic476 on 12 February 2010

We've actually started allowing layaway on ps3s and Wii at GameStop this past week. It's a practice we only enabled for the first time this past holiday, since all three consoles were in relatively short supply. We disabled the option in January, but since supply still hasn't caught up with demand, the option is available again for Wii/ps3.

Edit:

And for the inevitable doubters about the limited supply:

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/productDetails.aspx?sku=020321

Not only is it backordered through the website, but type in my zip code (70001) for in-store availability, and you get this:

No new products found within 100 miles of this ZIP code

That 100 miles includes not only the New Orleans area, but also most of the Baton Rouge area.



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makingmusic476 on 12 February 2010
Complications said:
RAZurrection said:
Complications said:

Absolute Primary School Bullshit. The more PS3s Sony produce - the more production costs are lowered as methods are made more affective. Also, the more PS3s sold - the more software is sold (software can make the PS3 profitable for Sony).

So really, the truth is the opposite of what you just said. 

If that's the case Sony should produce 10 million + PS3's every quarter, they'd have more than enough for 2010 and another 20m stockpiled for 2011 and still make money, they could essentially drop production for all of 2011 and make even more profits.

No dude no, there's no shortage of PS3's, there's a shortage of 120GB PS3's, the 250GB model is plentiful, the cheapest model, same thing happened at launch with the $499 model, there were hardly any of them. Though the situation isn't as bad as back then (sub 100K sales in the US per month) it's obviously enough to keep stop Sony taking second this month and if they're playing up the shortage it will probably continue for a couple more months.

You have no clue about business. Sony need to produce as many PS3 units as they can sell. If they made 10M PS3s every quarter, who would buy them all? Then sony would have to store all these excess PS3s - and storage costs money. Be serious please.

Calm down, bud.  Debate with reason, not with attacks. 



makingmusic476 on 12 February 2010
ps3-sales! said:
morenoingrato said:
So they won't be ready for "Sony's March"

How is this not trolling?

How is it trolling? 

And I agree with him.  Being short on supply in America right around the release of the last American system seller Sony really has is a bad idea, but it seems unavoidable, given the situation.



Crypto139 on 13 February 2010

Hey everyone, we have plenty here in New Zealand... and they are only $500 USD!



Pathetic Earthlings 

red_dragon on 13 February 2010

I think Sony stock will pick up back in March. They will have a bundle for God of War 3 and then another slow period till they are ready to launch Arc.



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MikeB on 13 February 2010
Squilliam said:

Sony: We predict we'll ship 13M consoles in the financial year.

Sony: We're have shortages because of unforseen demand.

WTF??!!

It does not take a rocket scientist. They already stand at 10.8 million sold for the first 3 quarters, due to the PS3 slim year over year sales have seen good increases, so they are on track to top 13 million sales this fiscal year if they supply more than that.



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