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Forums - Sales - GameStop + Pachter comment on Wii + ps3 shortages

Coronalex on 19 March 2010

No matter which console you own, I think we can all agree that the PS3 is finally coming along.
We can also agree that the PS3 owns the first quarter of '10, so really, it does make sense.



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burning_phoneix on 19 March 2010

Wait...did he say no exclusive titles till May?

What about err...Red Steel 2 and Monster Hunter Tri?



Kasz216 on 19 March 2010

The titles pachter quotes are tied to hardware.

You can't sell Wii Play if you don't have wiimotes... and you can't sell Wii Fit if you don't have Balance boards.

Heck even Mario Kart needs a wii wheel.

I think he's off base.



Kasz216 on 19 March 2010
c0rd said:
Wagram said:
Why do they have supply issues anyways? Are they just not making enough consoles or are they just not meeting the demand for them?

If so, wouldn't they just make more?

The PS3 just had a hardware redesign. It's understandable they need some time to catch up with demand after the holidays, the problem was actually far worse when the first PS2 slim came out.

The Wii just had a ridiculous December, few expected the numbers to be quite that high.

The supply will catch up in time, these things happen...

That and it's hard to be in a rush when your about to hit profitability any day now.

Still... to miss FFXIII and GOW... I wonder how many PS3 sales are lost because of that.

Espiecally FFXIII of course being multiplat.



Kasz216 on 19 March 2010
Cross-X said:
Arius Dion said:
Here's what I don't get. In December, Wii sold about as much in 1 MONTH than PS3 did for the entire YEAR in America. Nintendo was cleaned out, shortages have been reported why's Pachter having an orgasm about Wii having an underwhelming Febuary (considering the circumstances)? I've no idea. But he's rapidly becoming as big a fool as bruceongames or hiphopgamer.

That's what I wanna know. Where does he get his confidence from? He talks as if he's the man

He's an analyst.  Analysts NEED to be confident.  If he wanted to an Analyst could tell you with a straight face that dog poop in a sandwhich bag was going to be the number 1 hit X-mas 2010.



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silicon on 19 March 2010
Kasz216 said:
Cross-X said:
Arius Dion said:
Here's what I don't get. In December, Wii sold about as much in 1 MONTH than PS3 did for the entire YEAR in America. Nintendo was cleaned out, shortages have been reported why's Pachter having an orgasm about Wii having an underwhelming Febuary (considering the circumstances)? I've no idea. But he's rapidly becoming as big a fool as bruceongames or hiphopgamer.

That's what I wanna know. Where does he get his confidence from? He talks as if he's the man

He's an analyst.  Analysts NEED to be confident.  If he wanted to an Analyst could tell you with a straight face that dog poop in a sandwhich bag was going to be the number 1 hit X-mas 2010.

I think he's an analyst for investors. Investors don't care about total numbers as much as they care about growth... Wii could sell a million times more then the PS3 but if the PS3 market share grows and the Wiis shrinks then you make more money investing in the PS3.



(I'm not 100% sure on the particulars though.)