Alot of people follow the hype train and buy it.

alot more who want to buy it because of the previews and reviews they have seen tend to just postpone it if they don't get it and buy another game nd then after sometime just don't feel like buying it.

It merely had a delayed effect probably.

First week sales would be bigger, but overall sales would be identical. Notice how god of war 3 had smaller drops than most other PS3 games.

It's not like a god of war fanatic went to the store and said "hmmm No PS3's, guess I will never buy the game now, might as well move on" It's "Hmmm, no Ps3's, i'll just come back next week".

The choices are way to extreme.

I think it would have only helped a little bit in the first week, but the game is largely selling to the existing fanbase.

No, but there will be pleny of parents going to buy thier kids a new PS3 and a copy of God of War for thier birthdays or just a random gift for thier kids. They then see that there is no PS3, so instead they buy them a Wii, Xbox360, or a few games of the system they aleady have.

I was going to say yes, but then I looked at the numbers.

GOW 3's second week legs are only 25% vs GOW2's 30%.

Third week its 15% vs 16%.

It shows there really isn't a huge pent up demand... it's legs are performing near identical to GOW2's legs... of which there was obviously no shortage of PS2s.  If there was any pent up demand... even so much as a couple 100,000 it would of showed up in the legs.

There is nothing in the numbers that remotley suggests it affected GOW sales at all.

so you are saying GoWIII lost a few hundred copies at most right?

In your example it isn't too uncommon for the parents to tell the child what they were going to get, and then pick it up a week later when it is in stock. Or, the more common one is they buy everything ahead of time, so only those parents who waited until the last week possible would have had a problem. Heck, Nintendo did the buy a Wii in December get it in January program through gamestop one year, so we know parents will give their children rainchecks.

Thinking the hardware shortages caused 100-200k in lost sales is just wishful thinking. As stated earlier, almost all of the "missed" sales would just be moved into the later weeks. People know how to deal with items being out of stock, they don't just give up on a product unless it is out of stock for a long time, which the PS3 was not.

well Im sure that most of the god of war fans already got a ps3 by now so
is not like god of war is a title that can actually move hardwares like mario bros wii or grand turismo for sony or halo on xbox

so I say not much more

yeah many people who would have bought PS3 to play GOW3 because of the hype nad all just didn't get the chance and then when the hype died down,they forgot about it

GoW3 is already doing significantly better than its predecessors' attach rate (including GoWC, which fell into line with its predecessors' attach rates) would predict that it should, so it's difficult to say what effect letting up on the artificial PS3 shortage would have. It's almost certainly past the point of diminishing returns, but it would probably sell at least a little better.