@fishyjoe, on paid vacation, didnt really want to use it, but if i dont i lose it, so 2 weeks off

Have you an idea of the repartition between 80 Gb and 40 Gb during that week ?

Devastating PS3 sales....after 37 weeks of outselling the 360, its all coming undone. Damn it Sony!

Given his login name I bet he has plenty of time to do so

More seriously, maybe he checked online stock services for these shops?

@ madskillz

So are you calling ioi a liar?

He's the one who said that it was supply capped.

And again, no one is saying that there are no PS3s, obviously there are, since it sold 30k, but apparently it's pretty hard to find one.

There is a 360 shortage also due to the price drop and clearence of the 20gb. I forsee the 360 outselling the PS3 for the remainder of the year.

 After doing a bit of research today i can confirm this is bullshit.

I trecked around London like a nut job walking into every electronics supplier and even Blockbuster ( i know, i know)

while my brother in NY did this too. He found the PS3's were everywhere and i found the same here in London. No evidence at all to believe there is a supply re-straint. Supply restraint means there are none nowhere, not the local gamestop that had only 4 in anyway has sold out. Restraint means like what happened with the Wii there were none to be had anywhere and you would have to go to a different country to get one. And the icing on the cake, i spoke to a worker at Amazon who explained to me they have loads of PS3's in stock and haven't had any signs of a shortage in fact sales have been normal with the 40GB version doing ok.

So i think you might need to re-evaluate what you mean by shortage

PS3 40 gb is actually out of stock at amazon.com until august 6...

I don't think your contact at amazon is very aware about ps3 shortage....