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SCEA: PS3 Supply May Be "Tight" In Coming Months
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OutlawSamurai
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Dogenzaka said:
this is bad for sony?
darkwing said:
I already own one, apparently it came with my copy of MGS4 :lol
DMeisterJ said:
Supply has a direct correlation to demand. Usu when supply is low it's because demand is high or is increasing on a rate that was not expected. Usually when hardware sales are significantly increasing due to a rise in demand you see some kind of rise in software sales, unless people are just using them to watch movies.
OldJadedGamer
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Kittonwy said:Why would ANY company purposefully sell fewer products.
Why would Sony advertise a $499 20 gig unit and purposefully only make the $599 60 gig. They have done it before and if they are doing it now is up in the air. There have been wide reports of the 250gig's being in stock in many places while the 120 is the one that is limited. I'm not saying they are doing this now, but history does show them limiting stock of one item to push another in the recent past.
templeusox
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It now shows that they're using Target as their supplier for 120 GB's.darkwing said:
Don't be dense, people. I can't speak for ALL areas of the US but at least in my region and in the retail chain I work for (and it's one of the big ones) there are no new PS3 slims in stock within 100 miles in either the 120 or 250gb varieties. I don't know why and it's frustrating to me that I have people walk in my store every day with money in hand to buy one and I have nothing to sell them.
Obviously Sony is having some sort of issue as short cutting your supply after your biggest holiday ever and during tax refund season is a move not even they would make. I don't know if it's hard drives (as has been suggested) or larger demand elsewhere in the world or what but at least in my neck of the woods there are no new PS3's.
Obviously Sony is having some sort of issue as short cutting your supply after your biggest holiday ever and during tax refund season is a move not even they would make. I don't know if it's hard drives (as has been suggested) or larger demand elsewhere in the world or what but at least in my neck of the woods there are no new PS3's.
Days like these...
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matmanx1 said:
Why is it frustrating? You work on commission? I don't know about Gamestop or Walmart but I know Target doesn't work on commission.
OldJadedGamer
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matmanx1 said:
Just checked again and every single Best Buy in San Francisco has them in stock. 9/10 Target stores in San Francisco have them in stock as well. So it's location based. I checked these two sites cause they are two of the biggest and you can check their store stock online.
T.M. MacReady
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I was in a gamestop on Long Island tonight buying a used PSP, and the guy in front of me asked for a PS3, dude checked his comp for all surrounding gamestops and said nearest one was about 45 minutes from the mall I was at.
Why the shortage?
Why the shortage?
Dreams-Visions
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too much like right.Chû Totoro said:
OldJadedGamer
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Kagari said:
Best Buy you can check the 250gig *in store* stock. And Target lets you check both 120 and 250.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Maybe it's just a case of Sony saying (hoping) that with Heavy Rain, FF13, and GoW3 all coming out in the space of a few short weeks they might be shifting an exceptionally large number of HW units in NA over that period?
I mean that's two multi-million selling legacy franchises plus a heavily hyped and well reviewed new IP, if that doesn't encourage folks to buy into PS3 I don't know what will.
I mean that's two multi-million selling legacy franchises plus a heavily hyped and well reviewed new IP, if that doesn't encourage folks to buy into PS3 I don't know what will.
I haven't been keeping up with the thread but at the Best Buy I work at (and all surrounding ones), supply has definitely been tight on the 120 since maybe 2 weeks before Christmas. Sometimes on the 250, but not as much.
We get small shipments here and there. But to be honest, I don't see the demand being much more than the 360. They seem to sell at about the same rate when we have both. Either way, if it's like this across the country that's probably a big reason for 360 beating PS3 in January.
If Sony can't fix it or at least not let it get any worse than I've seen it in time for FFXIII and GoW3, I really have very little sympathy. It's hard to not notice that they finally seemed to become real competition for 360 this past fall and now they're saying that at a time when two of the most hyped games in the console's history are about to release, supply might be "tight"?
That's a royal fuck up.
We get small shipments here and there. But to be honest, I don't see the demand being much more than the 360. They seem to sell at about the same rate when we have both. Either way, if it's like this across the country that's probably a big reason for 360 beating PS3 in January.
If Sony can't fix it or at least not let it get any worse than I've seen it in time for FFXIII and GoW3, I really have very little sympathy. It's hard to not notice that they finally seemed to become real competition for 360 this past fall and now they're saying that at a time when two of the most hyped games in the console's history are about to release, supply might be "tight"?
That's a royal fuck up.
Kittonwy said:Why would ANY company purposefully sell fewer products.
If they know they make less losses if they sell less units, and know they will be able to cut costs in 6 months.
I would say any company...
It makes perfect business sense to shorten supply, to limit your losses, while at the same time being able to say 'omfg we're a such a huge succes, sold out again!'.
CadetMahoney
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real dirt-bag tactics if true, i wouldn't put it past them heh.itsgreen said:
This thread is making me lose faith in humanity.
Knowingly shorenting supply for no reason at all while having to sell 2.1 million units to make shipment goals? :lol
not knowing what 'tight' supply means? :lol
Constantly checking stores and shit to see if Sony is lying? :lol
Sigh.
Knowingly shorenting supply for no reason at all while having to sell 2.1 million units to make shipment goals? :lol
not knowing what 'tight' supply means? :lol
Constantly checking stores and shit to see if Sony is lying? :lol
Sigh.
If you really want a 120 gig right now, check to see if there is a Sonystyle store near you. There were 9 at the one in Westchester, NY (about 10 miles north of NYC) the other day sitting right there on the shelf with 4 250 gig models. Are those stores rare? I really have no idea.
Edit: guess not, there's 5 stores within 30 miles of here.
Edit: guess not, there's 5 stores within 30 miles of here.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Gravijah said:
Videogames is serious business I hear.
OldJadedGamer
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nodish2 said:
Settle down there junior. In SF they are everywhere. Just use zipcode 94110 if you think I'm lying.
gtj1092 said:
LOL, so now them being in stock = no one wants them. I'm stating that the "tight" inventory is location specific since they are widly available in my area. Quit being so defensive.
DMeisterJ said:
You know you can check this information in under a minute... if that long.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
How does someone Search now?
Anyway, not right thread, but close enough, hopefully someone can help.
For no reason whatsoever, my PS3 no longer registers me inserting discs. Games, Blu Ray discs, anything. The PS3 seems to be working fine, but I just can't get any disc I put in there to even register that it's in there let alone boot it. I can load PSN games fine. I have the older 40gig model. I suppose I recently updated the firmware.
Thoughts? Concerns? Fixes?? I really don't want to have to buy a new one!
Anyway, not right thread, but close enough, hopefully someone can help.
For no reason whatsoever, my PS3 no longer registers me inserting discs. Games, Blu Ray discs, anything. The PS3 seems to be working fine, but I just can't get any disc I put in there to even register that it's in there let alone boot it. I can load PSN games fine. I have the older 40gig model. I suppose I recently updated the firmware.
Thoughts? Concerns? Fixes?? I really don't want to have to buy a new one!
PartlyCloudlike
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Gravijah said:
Well yeah...because instead of people thinking about "all the shit in the world", they're concerning themselves with whether or not sony is lying about "tight supply" and calling stores all around their city to see if Sony is lying. You don't see amusing prioritizing going on there?
Segata Sanshiro
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Yeah, I remember how down you got when people were doing this with Nintendo, too.DMeisterJ said:
Wait, no I don't, because you're one of the biggest Sony ass-kissers on this forum.
OldJadedGamer
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Just an update, thought it might be relevant to the thread (sorry if similar things have been posted). I went out to buy a new PS3 slim in spite of my previously YLOD PS3 60GB launch unit, and I could get my hands on one ANYWHERE. I went to a Target, a SUPER Target, BestBuy, Walmart, and even Toys'R'Us.. only place I didn't go is GameStop but i'll call tomorrow.
I have a friend at Target who'll call me when shipments arrive though, thankfully.
I have a friend at Target who'll call me when shipments arrive though, thankfully.
vicissitudes
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DeadGzuz said:
I've been surprised at how well it's doing on Amazon.....unfortunately they don't really reflect NA sales in general.
Sentry said:
gamestop.com does not have 250gb in stock anymore, and there is reduced availability of 250GB in stores in SoCal (92648). PS3 also shot up on amazon.com, probably because lots of people cant find it offline.
this is getting quite funny. you never change sony, what would we be talking about if they knew how to run their business? :lol
Yeah wow...Problem still isn't fixed. Checking GS,Target, TRU online(who else lets you do this?), no ps3s within 100 miles. Really, checking a few other zips, seems like there are none in stock in the entire state(FL).
What a colossus fuck up.
March is probably the single biggest month yet for releases and this happens.
Feb NPDs will be fun at least
Amazon has them in stock again though, which could mean the situation is sorted out and they just have not gotten the units to individual stores in some places. Which could make sense why it seems to be "location based" as OldJaded says.
What a colossus fuck up.
March is probably the single biggest month yet for releases and this happens.
Feb NPDs will be fun at least
Amazon has them in stock again though, which could mean the situation is sorted out and they just have not gotten the units to individual stores in some places. Which could make sense why it seems to be "location based" as OldJaded says.
OldJadedGamer
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DeadGzuz said:
Best Buy won't let me check the 120's (only the 250's) in the San Francisco area but the 120 gig is in stock at the 9/10 Target stores in the Bay Area that they have listed on their website (unless the Target website is lying).
We'll see from the Gamasutra NPD thread what the average price of the PS3 was in the next buying month if people waited on a 120 or bought the 250. It's a sketchy game that Sony is playing making so many 250's over 120's. IMO, the 250 isn't needed in the first place. When I bought my slim it wasn't even announced yet and when it was, I couldn't care less and knew I got the better unit of the two.
OldJadedGamer said:
94110 closest gamestop:
ps3 120gb 50 miles away
ps3 250gb 6.8 miles away
360 arcade - 0.0 miles away
There are 70 gamestops for that zipcode where there is no ps3 120gb and are stocked with 360.
You keep pushing the same stuff over and over, as if it is good for Sony to be out of stock :lol.