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Pre-order Playstation 3 sells out
Author: Ryan GarsidePublished: 11th October 2006
The PS3 will cost an arm and a leg yet has sold out in a day for pre-orders at one games retailer.
Reports are now emerging from the US that claim that Sony's new console, the PS3, has sold out in an afternoon. Gamestop, the largest video games retailer in the US, made this comment: "In some stores they sold out in 10 minutes, in some stores hours, for others it was the afternoon."
However, let's look at the facts. Gamestop has 3,600 stores in the US and each store has a minimum of eight and a maximum of 13 PS3's to sell. Let's say that each store has 11 consoles to give away, now the pre-order figure stands at 39,600 PS3 units sold. This is a figure that falls a long way short of the 400,000 consoles that Sony has promised to deliver on the November 17th launch date.
The bigger question here is why are companies repeatedly claiming that there are shortages which are quite obviously engineered by the companies themselves? Of course, the argument is that this strategy works - this news story is giving mileage to the Sony propaganda wagon free of charge.
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And of that allocation, two for every store can be purchased by staff.
10 ps3s per store of the biggest retailer in the country? :\
surely there were more 360s? 10 doesnt seem a lot, at all.
Don't let the Pre-Order thing mislead you. Because of the 360 debacle Gamestop only took the small limited amount of in-store Pre-Orders and probably set aside a quantity for Online ordering (in ripoff bundle style).
Think about the Japanese market, Sonys home territory and they get only 20% of launch allocation.
probably nothing. nobody really moaned about the ps2 shortages and they wont about the ps3 either. its sony at the end of the day. to 99% of the public they can do no wrong with regards consoles
That looks messed up, auction ended with buy it now, buy it now $1,000,000.00 ?!?
[Edit]HOLY EXPLETIVE! I thought it was $1k not $1M!!![/Edit]
Anyways, how many people will buy a console from gamestop? People are going to flock to the large stores. Circuit city, best buy, walmart, target, etc. The large stores will probably throw the consoles into bundles with a game or two to raise initial profits knowing that people will bite no matter what.
Gamestop selling out is NOT accurate portrayal of events to come. A lot of consoles will be sold. Parents will buy it to spoil their children, fanboy gamers will buy it to brag to their friends that they were the first in line, and reasonable persons will purchase it as well for various other reasons.
The thing is, Sony is going to take a hit for each and every console they sell. If things go wrong or people are unhappy with their machines, sales will drop, support will drop, and Sony's going to have a debacle on their hands.
Nope only Sony needs the blue diodes for their Bluray drive so MS has no supply problems this time round... only poor Sony
This is just marketing spin, and I've heard that up to 2/3ds of all preorders have been bought for sale on. Thats a terible statistic for sony really.
Every single one of them, if the buyer has any sense. However ebay are closing all auctions that start before a week (i think, can't remember exactly) before they ship because of their 'in posession of goods' rule.
As or the shortages being hype, i don't think we can really use those guestimates as proof either way but i think it's safe to assume there's a lot of 'marketting' involved.
not the same as blu-ray maybe, but im sure its not a red laser diode