Comments on: Global PS3 Shortages To End Soon As Price Drop Looms

By: Sensible_Seven

Sensible_Seven — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:26:14 +0000

Wake up, PS3 isn’t sold out anywhere.

These “global shortages” don’t exist.

By: xeacons

xeacons — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:10 +0000

Sony sales are starting to pick up, but that just means Sony is losing more money. -$250 off every PS3 sold. They’re in the hole, having to make cutbacks and take out loans to produce the damn thing. Now every system has always lost money at launch (except the Wii), only to make it up in sales. Thing is, PS3 games aren’t selling. One PS3 game in the top ten, and that’s Madden (barf).

Did I mention they almost fired the guy who invented the PS3? He’s now working in the mailroom!
Meanwhile, the guy who invented the PS1 and 2 (Ken) left Sony, with a one-finger salute.

By: mikelimtw

mikelimtw — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:35:51 +0000

Also, please explain this logic to me. How is it that a looming price drop is going to end a shortage of PS3′s?

If PS3′s were in such short supply – NOT – then why does Sony feel the need to drop the price? If you really want a lesson in economics then you look at the XBOX 360 and the Wii.

Suppy and demand on the XBOX 360 have been in pretty close harmony since the launch of the XBOX 360. Therefore MS felt no immediate need to lower the price. They only did so recently to marginalize any minor gains that Sony may have gotten from announcing their own price drops.

The PS3 has been out for less than a year, and already their talking price drop. What happened to Sony’s earlier pronouncements that they didn’t see a need to cut price for at least 2 to 3 years? XBOX 360 has been out for almost 2 years and now you’re seeing the first price cuts on the system. So what does that tell you about how the PS3 is selling versus the XBOX?

Also, the Wii is selling out pretty much everywhere. Will you see a price cut on the Wii this holiday season? And is a price cut going to make more Wii’s available? Probably not.

You guys should stick to manufacturing shoddy Photoshop images to appease your bleeding wallets. Leave logic to those who actually have brains.

By: mikelimtw

mikelimtw — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:23:55 +0000

Oh this is rich. That pic is so obviously Photoshopped that you can really hear the strangled cries of these PS3Fanboys.

There are no PS3′s on the shelves so what do we have in their place? Looks like a loaf of bread, maybe some twinkies and a box of Ritz crackers.

This.Is.Sadness

By: CookieJarvis

CookieJarvis — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:41:55 +0000

LOL, What ps3 shortage I work a video games store and even with that joke of a price drop. Sorry I mean Liquidation of the 60gig model we sold 2 ps3′s in 5 months. Face it no one wants one because there nothing worth play on it but bad ports of xbox360 games and failed exclusives like lair.

By: mostwantedmexico

mostwantedmexico — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:00:49 +0000

dont you think its time for a new story? its getting boring coming back again and again with the same stoory popping up

By: Ganon92

Ganon92 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:21:42 +0000

Its amazing what you can do with image editing software these days isn’t it?

By: itsajoke

itsajoke — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:45:38 +0000

A PS3 “news”! I was under the impression you guys were a 360 site will all the news dealing with it.

By: 360defenseforce.com

360defenseforce.com — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:21:56 +0000

The PS3 is not sold out anywhere, plain and simple

By: blackhaven

blackhaven — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:26:41 +0000

There is a fully stacked pyramid of PS3s every single time I drop by Best Buy. No one is buying them.

The only shortage Sony has right now is customers that want to buy their shitty Blu-ray player (aka PS3)