I'm not one to spend my free time visiting stores to check and see if PlayStation 3s are in stock, but if various first-hand reports on the Internet are to be believed (which they probably shouldn't), then supposedly the system is readily available whenever you can gather enough scratch to buy it. Well, Sony continues to say it's sold out and that they are trying to meet demand. Is this true? What do our soldiers on the front lines have to say? Here's what Sony says:
Sony Corp. is on track to ship 2 million PlayStation 3s to North American stores by the end of March, and expects shortages of the video game console to have completely eased by May, a top executive said on Tuesday. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and have product fully in stock across North America and stay there," said Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America.
Asked about widespread reports on video game Web sites that stacks of unsold PlayStation 3s are a common sight in many electronics shops, Tretton told Reuters in an interview that the console was still out of stock in some areas three months after its November launch. "It's a testament to the fact that we've been able to manufacture and ship units on a greater pace than any previous console," Tretton said. "Our goal is to fill shelves across the United States. Our goal is not to have empty shelves, it's to have full shelves. If we have empty shelves, that's one less consumer who could have bought a PlayStation 3," Tretton said.
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1:32 PM on 02.28.2007
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Henry Rollins FTW.
"Cause I'm a Liar. I Lie."
I've seen PS3s in my local Wal-Mart and Target every time I've gone into the store lately. Once a week and on the weekends mostly.
Haven't counted the ones at Best Buy or Gamestop.
Gotta love Sony spin
i have seen wii time to time on shelf at target and time to time at others....
i dont check on them regularly i just browse the game sections when in teh stores and see the console shelves bare...
Popular belief says Long Islanders throw money away like its yesterdays paper. if thats true then why the hell can i walk into Roosevelt field and get a PS3 at any of the stores within that mall?
I bet the Gamestop in Beverly Hills has more Ps3's than they know what to do with.
DON'T BELIEVE ONDORE'S LIES!!
Also, they're are many , many more PS3's in the stores around the Bradenton/Sarasota area than any other console. Except maybe the PSP.
Also, cocks.
nobody's buying, but that's their market strategy
"fill the shelves"
they certainly are going to achieve that goal
Next time I'm down there I'll ask the dude that works the consoles section if they are being sold and constantly replaced or if those boxes are the same ones I've been seeing the last month.
You know, I would have even believed this executive without all the snooping had Sony come out with a few decent games. Resistance got boring very quickly, and I often found myself playing it just for the sake of beating it....
Wii doesn't have a stunning lineup of games either, but they pushed out a system that was able to appeal to such a wide range of users, even with the currently limited software base (which to me doesn't look like its going to improve enough anytime soon either).
360 is still the way to go at least for the next year... I'm glad those guys are seeing a stable/constant hardware sale, because right now the software is decent, future lineups all sound rosy, and having new faces on live is always fun... except the unsupervised 10 year olds with enough ego and whiney pitch to out do a handfull of Alto's at their peak
Sony claims they are INCREASING the numbers of units they are shipping since launch.
However, sales numbers for the console are DECREASING since launch. So if they are shipping more and selling less, they can't be sold out. If they were selling out, the sales numbers would be very close to the shipping numbers, with a small amount of error for units in transit. But the numbers simply are not looking this way.
I think the price still keeps people from making the impulse buy.
futureshop, best buy, eb games, toys r us always have them in stock.
the EB games has actually sold 2 in the month of february.
...or maybe that's one more consumer who didn't purchase a PS3.
This month is no different. Wii's are near impossible to find, PS3's are much easier now than in January to find (my best buy consistently has 10 in stock). If in fact it is selling out, my question is Where?
Maybe Sony is shipping far too many consoles. Nintendo on the other hand are hardly shipping any (I overheard a clerk at a local GameStop tell a woman to check back in mid-March...a week ago), which would explain their lack of in-store stock. I'm sure the demand on that has dropped as well.
People are saving their money for the N-Gage 2.
i'm sure there were more but the rack was full.
then i went to the game section and there was nothing good.
i guess Sony wins if their objective was to have
full shelves.
and the people who are in Bluray section say , they HAVE to
buy movies because their PS3 is useless for games.
was this Sony's plan? forced sales?
I've also been keeping count of the numbers of Wii's I have seen to. This is much easier since the number hasn't changed from zero yet.
If it was the other way around Sony would be the idiots not being able to supply and Nintendo would be the ones who have the perfect supply chain.
Mind you, I really don't like the PS3 (only 2 planned exclusives that I like so far) and I'm really rooting for Nintendo, but it's just funny to see how Sony, with their stupid comments, has created a trend on the Net (because people who don't go on videogames blogs and websites don't give a rat's ass about all that stuff) where everything Sony is just bad when compared to Microsoft and Nintendo.