The PS3 continues to be hot in demand despite a supply shortage. It appears that Sony is unable to crank out PS3s fast enough to meet the current level of demand. This can be frustrating to those expecting to get their hands on God of War III.

Earlier last month I ran a story about the PS3 shortage where Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of Corporate Communications stated that the holiday demand carried over into the new year. He also noted that demand is “tremendously high for the PS3” and that Sony expects tight inventory in the coming months.

During my February NPD analysis, I noted that supply still seemed to be tight as all three major retailers (Amazon, EBGames, Best Buy) were showing the PS3 out of stock. Despite the shortage, Sony managed to shift 360k units  (up 30 percent) in the U.S. last month, which is still pretty impressive.

I reached out to Seybold to get an update on the situation and to see when the supply will free up.

Seybold stated:

We expect the tight inventory to loosen up later in Spring.

Since we only have two more months before spring officially ends, it seems like there is a good chance supply may free up sometime next month.

http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/03/17/sony-ps3-supply-to-remain-tight-until-late-spring/

Good to hear. Maybe we will see some higher sales.

What i dont get thouhg is that microsoft dont seem to have much trouble shipping the 360 to the US

Some of this might be due to the rumor of 200g coming off the PS3 "soon".  Would make sense if you are doing this, to move some resources from current production to new production (or to begin preparation for mass production of the new systems).

The US is Microsofts top market. So it's not hard to see them keeping inventory up in their strongest region.

Where as the PS3 is on fire everywhere. Not just a single region.