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steven787 said:
Maybe, but there are two more issues.

1. They lost a lot of money already, to increase production capacity would require investment in capital. It probably isn't worth it or there'd be plenty of PS3's. (This is the same reason Nintendo is really slow to increase production)

2. There is no guarantee that demand will still be there. As the third place console, Sony is playing it safe. They may be the first to see a decrease in demand.

i  think they are trying to adopt as fast as possible to any option they get to produce ps3 cheaper so they are not producing much more than their planned sales to be able to see gains from cheaper new model revisions faster.

if you jsut keep up with demand and not stockpile you can cut unneded costs a lot, if they had 5 million ps3 on stock with 90nm rsx at the time of the switch to 65nm then they would have lost more money on these 5 million sku than needed, so best stay close to demand and don't build stocks to be able to be as cost effective as possible.



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no shortage here in Swansea, UK. u can walk out and bring a ps3 home in no time



Well WalMart just got in the MGS4 bundle for the first time in a month.



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I dont see Sony reducing the cost by a $100 or even $50 before Christmas unless it is deemed to be mission critical which i dont think it the case. 3rd parties are onboard and thats not goign to change, so what if they lose ground to the 360 over christmas. They are still going to sell a considerable number of units at much healthier margins, why would they want to go back into making a loss on each unit again.

Dropping price immediately would seem like desperation. Doing it in 2009 is when it will happen maybe around a big release.



MorgZ said:
I dont see Sony reducing the cost by a $100 or even $50 before Christmas unless it is deemed to be mission critical which i dont think it the case. 3rd parties are onboard and thats not goign to change, so what if they lose ground to the 360 over christmas. They are still going to sell a considerable number of units at much healthier margins, why would they want to go back into making a loss on each unit again.

Dropping price immediately would seem like desperation. Doing it in 2009 is when it will happen maybe around a big release.

 

KZ2+160GB hard drive bundle perhaps (at the current price)?



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I'm not believing there is a shortage until Ioi says so. It's not like Tretton hasn't lied about this before.



Kasz216 said:
I'm not believing there is a shortage until Ioi says so. It's not like Tretton hasn't lied about this before.

 

To JT's credit, he doesn't say there IS a shortage, only that their COULD be shortages if the PS3 keeps selling above SONY's predicions



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well, people are always only reading what they want to read

still, I was a bit surprised, that I didn't see a single PS3 in our Saturn (a big electronics retailer here in germany) in Mainz, when I bought Yakuza 2 two weeks ago



I'm not sure.

We'll see.



WHAT BAD SALES??????
sales haven't changed untill now