Better than nobody though his specialty is Xbox Live rather than the manufacturing side of things.

Though twitter isn't the best source, just fyi, I like more credible sources like interviews and press releases.  Basically they can say anything without much backlash cause an investor isn't going to be following someones twitter.  I don't really know why he said don't expect to win Dec cause of the end of the month anyway cause when they didn't "run out" before the end of the month they were still being beat... so its like how do you expect to win a month if all 4 weeks the console doesn't outsell the competition... oh well like I said not the best source.

Good Sales for Nintendo

See ..... I KNEW this would happened!  I prophesied it the moment Major Nelson tweeted about shortages.

Last year, the PS3 fans and zealots (mostly the zealots) were talking PS3 shortages through freakin' June!  JUNE!!!  Now some 360 fans and zealots and even just some regular folks are mentioning the shortages just a couple weeks after that tweet and now others are saying they're sick of it already AND even more are saying that they are bogus.

Seriously I wish you people would GET OVER YOURSELVES!  You're KILLING this community with your trolling, stealth trolling, alt trolling and general INSISTENCE on, not disagreeing, but being disagreeable!  Just ......... please stop.  For the sake of peace PLEASE just ... just stop.

http://bit.ly/eIyRzw

Got an example of that?  Now I warned Carl in the past saying stuff like that cause these blanket statements really add nothing to discussions and it could be a flat out falsification without some proof. 

Listen to this before you read anything else. It helps. Trust me.

Now. Why do you care so much that people are questioning Major Nelson saying that supply was tight? Why does it bug you so much when people question it (Me, for example) when it outsells the Wii in America, the PS3 Worldwide, Kinect Adventures! is the best selling title of the Week and it had the lowest Week on Week drop?

Does it look like there are shortages? Really?  No it doesn't.

Anyway, because you brought Sony into this. Last year, when Sony said there were shortages... There actually was. NPD commented on it. Retailers were commenting on it. Big Sony officials were commenting on it. Sales weren't increasing despite big releases (See God of War 3). Now with the 360 shortages, we have Major Nelson saying supply is "tight".

With tight supply, the Xbox 360 outsold the Wii in America, outsold the PS3 Worldwide, matched the DS in America, had the lowest Week on Week drop and (according to Maxwell) is in plenty supply.

The shortages excuse is either made up, not as bad as MS are making it out to be, or we are overtracking the 360. Pick one.

I really didn't want to make myself a target by seemingly calling people out, but it looks like I have to defend my statements ...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3877378

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3877737

HairlessHenry's post are now gone (good job mods!), so can't link to them

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3880390 (I'm gonna get it for this one, aren't I?)

That's just in THIS thread.  Do you really want/expect me to go hunt down every case of it in all the forums that cumulatively led to my impassioned plea?

Are the shortages real?  If we are going to be accepting of the PS3 shortages last year due to the large holiday sales of the PS3 Slim in 2009, we should be just as accepting of the 360's for this year due to larger than expected sales during holiday 2010.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000738

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/01/xbox-360-sales-jump-but-shortages.html

Those are just two of many articles I found about this doing the simplest of Google searches.  Yet people walk in a store, see 360's and suddenly the shortages are doubted???  REALLY???

Yeah, its aggravating when people cherry pick the story's they want to believe based on console affiliation and when the burden of proof is put on those that actually have supporting evidence that won't be accepted anyway makes it even more aggravating.

I didn't ask for links about users talking about 360 shortages, I was asking for the PS3 users claiming there were PS3 shortages in June of last year... otherwise I'm lead to assume you're just making it up, it doesn't add anything to discussion, I told Carl that, and it's not fair to him if he's the only one that needs to respect the content rule. 

And thank you for actually providing some proof from a more credible source than twitter, I'm going to follow through and read up on it, the only thing is like other posters brought up multiple sources claims shortages when Wii was out and when PS3 was out, from stores to the companies themselves, the story you provided me said they had to cut their outgoing shipments for Jan and Feb, but it doesn't mean that limited supply isn't meeting the post holiday demand. 

It's like thats the first step to showing they're selling out, second step is some retailers saying they can't keep the system in stock, but from the sound of it that might only be an issue in other countries.  It's like this when Nintendo and retailers said the Wii was sold out, it was sold out in many stores in my area as well, when it happened with PS3 it happened here as well but not to the level of Wii of course and sales reflected that, and now there's sparse words from MS saying supply is limited, but retailers aren't reporting sell outs and I can easily find a 360 anywhere in my area, so what would you have me believe, a couple of people online or what the evidence has lead me to believe?  Supply isn't as much as they wanted out there but retailers aren't reporting sellouts.

Should we rename the site to "Shortagechartz" or "Ragechartz"?

I approve of Ragechartz haha

I wonder what figures will reach LBP2 and ME2 on PS3 next week. I *hope* for 1 mill for LBP (guess it's a bit too high) and for ME2 I have no idea :D what do you guys think?