Surplus PS3's

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http://www.gwn.com/articles/article.php/id...ses_Demand.html

Last year, it took several months for the Xbox 360 to be readily available in retail stores. Chains such as Gamestop/ EB Games were still filling preorders well into 2006 (the system launched 11/21/2005), and it wasn’t until around March or April that someone could easily walk into a store and walk out with Microsoft’s next-generation console. Now Nintendo seems to be walking that path, with demand for the Wii still far exceeding the available stock. While this time the preorders were filled right away, people are still hunting and waiting in long lines and hoping to get lucky in acquiring the system.

It now appears, though, that Sony is having no such issues. A recent check with my local game store found that they had plenty of Playstation 3’s in stock, and that they weren’t exactly moving. My first thought was that Sony had caught up with production and was sending out greater numbers, but the store informed me that they were still getting the same shipments they’ve been getting all along (roughly 2 systems a week), but that with nobody coming in to purchase the console the stock is just building up.

The employees of that store and others report that while they’re still fielding a high number of Wii-related calls during each day, they can go an entire day without any inquiries at all about the PS3. One store showed me a scratch pad they kept by the phone one day, making marks for each Wii call and PS3 call they received. At the end of that day the Wii had gotten 75, while the PS3 came in at 2.

The other issue the store reported is the high number of returns on the Playstation 3. These customers, states my source, had in most cases purchased the consoles in the hopes of making a profit by reselling them online. A quick scan of Ebay, though, shows that this is no longer an option. The few PS3’s that are posted either have no bids at all, or are being sold for the retail price or even below (I saw one unopened 60gb unit with a Buy it Now price of $550, $50 below the retail price). So these people who had hoped to make some easy money are bringing back their purchases so they can at least break even.

One store that I talked to reported three consoles being returned in one day, while another said they had gotten four back over the course of the week after Christmas. These returns, in addition to the stock that is still being sent, adds up to a healthy stack of systems that the store says they just can’t move. They even remarked that they had more PS3’s in stock than they had Xbox 360’s.

Does this ominous start bode badly for Sony? While it is very early in the “console war”, many people expect the first several months to play out with shortages and high demand that the manufacturer just can’t keep up with. Now I’m talking to stores that wish they wouldn’t get any more consoles until they can actually move the ones they have sitting in their stockrooms.

Time will tell, of course, and it only takes one title to shift the winds in favor of one console or another. One employee laughingly told me that they had been sitting on a stack of GameCubes, both new and used, until Resident Evil 4 was released, and suddenly they couldn’t keep the system in stock, so it really does ultimately come down to the games.
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Is this true?
 
Same here... my Best Buy has plenty of em both 20 and 60 gig. As for Wii's ? Not one in sight and even the accessory wall is pretty much picked clean. My house is high traffic in regards to video games. There is myself, my wife's brother and all his friends, and all my co-worker and friends that come by just to hang out and game. The Wii gets the most action hands down followed by the Xbox360 and sadly my P23 hasnt been turned on since I beat Resitance Fall of Man like a week and half after launch. But it does have a lot to do with games... in the end though I fear it will be the Wii that wins the console war in my house. Super Drunken Arms'a'Wavin Party Games like Monkey Ball and Rayman Raving Rabbits seem to be the hits here. I cant even imagine what its going to be like when Super Smash Brothers Blunt Brawl hits... my house will be insane.
 
yeah its true most stores around my house have multiple ps3s in stock i guess the guy at gamestop said they have had them for weeks, see this is why u dont price a fucking console game at 600 bucks.....
 
As much fun as the Wii is (the wife loves it and all my friends ask constantly call to come over to play, wife is pissed that Wii Orchestra doesn't come out till October), I still believe the XBox 360 is going to "win" the console war. They have seem to have got the best of all worlds, great graphics, fun games, next-gen movie system (that looks to be winning over Blue-Ray, cause the porn industry is backing HD-DVD), smarter pricing, and their sales have barely dropped off in over a year after release.

Even with the Wii getting up to full production soon, the XBox's are still outselling the Wii. God damn MS.
XBox has been out now for 15 months and they haven't needed any form of price drop to continue selling.

Bastards.
 
Tbe Best Buy in Augusta has this, all 60GB models.

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If I had $700, I'd buy a 360 and a shitload of games. Sony should have known they were crazy for charging $600 for a damn console.

.. Now if only the 360 price would drop after over a year later, I'd be happy. :)
 
i asked for a ps3 for christmas because i knew i wouldnt spend 600 bucks on it myself :p

and i didnt get one anyways
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ruler-jimbo @ Jan 14 2007, 01:40 PM) [snapback]139340[/snapback][/center]
i asked for a ps3 for christmas because i knew i wouldnt spend 600 bucks on it myself :p

and i didnt get one anyways [/b]

Because no one will spend $600 on you.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Akieo @ Jan 14 2007, 09:55 AM) [snapback]139329[/snapback][/center]
If I had $700, I'd buy a 360 and a shitload of games. Sony should have known they were crazy for charging $600 for a damn console.

.. Now if only the 360 price would drop after over a year later, I'd be happy. :) [/b]

It's not a console...its an "entertainment system". The $600 is for the "blu-ray".
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Timi @ Jan 15 2007, 05:30 AM) [snapback]139342[/snapback][/center]
Because no one will spend $600 on you.

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youre right :angry:
 
Problem is that companies over estimate their gaming market. They think the majority of the gamers are the kids and teeny boppers when a huge chunk of the market are the late 20's and up. That's the market that grew up on atari, nintendo, sega. That is also the same market that prevents their children from getting $600+ consoles.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Timi @ Jan 14 2007, 08:17 PM) [snapback]139347[/snapback][/center]
Problem is that companies over estimate their gaming market. They think the majority of the gamers are the kids and teeny boppers when a huge chunk of the market are the late 20's and up. That's the market that grew up on atari, nintendo, sega. That is also the same market that prevents their children from getting $600+ consoles.
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Who made you a Market Analyst?, I've got enough of them making up stuff, than to add you to that.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BananaMan @ Jan 14 2007, 03:33 PM) [snapback]139352[/snapback][/center]
Who made you a Market Analyst?, I've got enough of them making up stuff, than to add you to that.

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Well I figured all you had to do was pull shit out of your ass....seems what Sony does best, so figured why not me?
 
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