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Forums - Gaming - Supply constraints hurt Sony/PS3 much more than Nintendo/Wii

Arius Dion on 11 March 2010
binary solo said:
Arius Dion said:
Its not like without shortages PS3 would be selling at Wii levels with shortages lol.

What's that got to do with anything? Have you missed the point or are you being deliberately inflammatory?

Don't be so sensitive. You OP talks about supply constraints right? I made an observation. Judging by NPD numbers it looks like your OP was proven wrong n e way.



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Zucas on 11 March 2010
binary solo said:
Zucas said:
Um well I do see the point that do to a lot of similarities and price differences, the 360 becomes a good second choice for a potential PS3 owner that couldn't find the PS3. However, I'd like to point out that in the first holiday season that Nintendo was able to have an ample supply of shipments (still sold out though) for Wii, they were able to sell almost 4 million units in December in America alone. Imagine if they could have had that same ability in the holilday seasons the previous 2 years.

The supply constraints severely hurt Nintendo, because they were never able to put the competition away. And as 360 started to come down in price and so do PS3, they became viable options as well when they couldn't find a PS3. Nintendo's inability to keep a healthy supply of stock, mainly because it was almost impossible, really did keep PS360 alive, especially in America (alone with the 2 getting constant big games from 3rd parties which Wii was mainly relying on Nintendo).

So I will have to respectfully disagree, and state that the length of shortages for Wii have severely hurt it's sales and market percentage moreso than PS3's current issue.

I sort of agree. Wii sales are still pumping along nicely, there's nothing particularly disappointing about them, but yes the longer the period of supply constraint the worse it is for total potential sales. However my thinking is that if PS3 went for even 6 months of having supply shortages this would be very detrimental to PS3, especially in the USA where 360 is strongest. The fact Wii has withstood multiple years of supply shortages and still has the highest demand ever shows it to be much more resilient than PS3.

 

Hmm that is a rather good point.

I think we can both see from February NPD, that with both Wiis and PS3s nowhere to be found, that both of them got hurt while 360 was helped out a lot buy it which was in ample supply.



aragod on 12 March 2010

Well it's a known fact that certain percentage of customers base their shopping on impuls. So they can either give something more though given there is long waiting period. Or they go out to buy a certain thing, which they are looking forward and it's not there, they tend to ease the "pain" by buying something else. So instead of buying new Wii, they'll just get 2 games for their current system instead of waiting for 3 more weeks to be on the reservation list.

It does definately hurt both consoles, the only question is how much.



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