In the 101st episode of the PlayStation Blogcast (which celebrates them reaching the 100 episode mark), Sony Computer Entertainment America Boss Jack Tretton was interviewed, and he talked about PlayStation 4 stock:

You get asked sometimes, ‘Do you create an artificial shortage because you want there to be a feeding frenzy?’ No you don’t! I mean, you have competition out there, and there are lots of things that people can spend money on, especially during the holidays, and holidays only come around once a year, so that’s really when you want to take advantage of the market opportunity.

So we manufactured every unit that we could get our hands on. And the good news is… [the PS4 is] far and away the largest launch in console history, not just PlayStation history, gaming history.

As well, he spoke of some really high numbers when the PS4 was in stock at Amazon last week:

I think we made 12,000 [PS4s] available to Amazon last week and they went out in 27 minutes. When you can sell 12,000 in 27 minutes, it takes some big numbers to satisfy the demand out there.

What do you think of those sales numbers on Amazon? Let us know in the comments below.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/12/13/jack-tretton-we-sold-12000-ps4s-on-amazon-last-week-in-27-minutes/

Leoj needs to read this thread

The whole idea of artificial shortages is just silly, yet people always bring it up at a console launch. No one wants to NOT sell their product. Turning people away means that they might not come back. It doesn't make any real sense.

holy shit, ps4 selling at a rate of 640,000 units per day just on amazon!! talk about a fast selling console...

19 million per month :D

Okay.. They aren't making enough then

i think you need to change the thread title.  people need to know about this amazing sales velocity. 

Yeah they should hire magician to oversee the production of ps4

Where?

Xbox already announced that at it's launch peak? They were selling 1k units per minute on Amazon.

So PS4 even loses that metric (though this is way past launch so it'a different)

“Demand for next generation gaming continues to be very strong,” said John Love, director of video games at Amazon.  “At peak demand, customers were ordering the Xbox One console at over 1000 units per minute on Amazon.com.”