PS3s all over the place!  

Be careful with what you post, the mods are locking threads with PS3 sales content.

Although the games is a huge factor, I think another big thing is that the 20GB model seems to be sold out everywhere. Every store I've been to has the 60GB in stock but the 20GB is sold out. Is 100 dollars really worth an extra 40GB, wireless, and a card reader? I don't think it is.

That is actually the main thing keeping me from buying a PS3, I can't find the 20GB model.

You need to stop the drugs.

Don't forget the silver band in the front.

Now how much would you pay!?

Most definitely the lack of games. Our store manager insisted on us having someone there to assist customers with PS3's whenever we had them in. After sticking someone in that aisle from open to close for 3 days straight, the manager has since revised the plan to "someone needs to check on customers whenever they enter the aisle" otherwise known as "back to normal".

This same exact thread with the same title was closed because of flame wars. This one will be too, because it has no point or place in this forum. This forum is for PS3 talk, what it is and what it does. It is not for whether it sells or not.

Wireless is worth $100 if you need it, and then you get some other stuff for free.

I bought the 60g for wireless, but now that I am using the ethernet cable, I would of saved the $100 and upgraded to a 120g HDD.

this thread is like DejaVu all over again! Sure, I see PS3's everywhere too... When I go downstairs to get a snack, I see one making dinner, when I go to the bathroom I see one shaving, when I go to the den, I see 4 playing poker...

sheesh.....

but seriously folks...
I have the 20gb version and it's fine for me now. If you want to say, download a game demo ethernet is the way to go. With wireless it will take ages...

Maybe Sony's just doing a good job at producing enough to create some inventory. It's no big deal if you see half a dozen Blu-Ray players stacked up at Best Buy

I see 360's everywhere, and CC, BB, Target, and everyother store has a 360 in there ad each and every week. The 360's are not selling out. When was the last time besides launch week and the week before Christmas that you saw any retailer advertise for a PS3? Free game or rebate with PS3 I think not but you can find one just about every week for a 360.

What does this have to do with the Xbox 360? It has been out for over a year, why would it sell out? There is more than enough supply.

I think that's exactly it. The PS3 is certainly not common everywhere (I have yet to see one it Pittsburgh) but they have ramped production far beyond where the 360 was last year at this time.

The PS3 is available everywhere that sells it where I live. According to a lot of articles coming to light there are over 300,000 PS3s sitting on shelves across the USA. Thats a lot for a newly released console. You can argue that its Sony meeting demand due to their ability to produce the system, but then you have to ask how good is it for a console, newly released and hyped beyond belief, to have 300,000 units sitting on shelves. The systems aren't moving nearly as well as Sony hoped and they are worried.

Only idiots bought 60 GB P$3. Plus PS3 is doomed. The same is happening to $ony which is also going on with Microsoft.

People buy 20 GB P$3, forget 60 GB P$3.
People buy Premium 360, forget about the Core 360.

But MS is at a better advantage because of the consoles being 200 dollars less than each other. That is my reason why PS3 does not sell well and will not sell well throughout it entire life cycle.

I have downloaded game demo's-almost everyone of them-wirelessly- and it has only taken me 20 to 25 minutes max for the largest of them. I wanted the wireless because of the ps3 location in my home. I would not run a 100 ft e-cable unless it was absolutely necessary. Sure it is faster wired but wired would not work in my setup with the components so far apart. Also I like the memory card readers built in. I have sony digital cameras and it is great to just put the memory stick in the ps3 and not worry about a adapter-sure they are only ten bucks but all this stuff adds up!! I am not an Idiot!!

I would have thought the 60G version was a waste of money if not for my 360 experience. Running wires through the house is a nightmare, so I ended up getting the wireless add on and was $100 right there. In addition, it took me about 2 days to run out of space on the meager hard drive. I also love to take my consoles with me to other peoples homes and wireless comes in very handy.

another thing is that shows how well production of PS3 is doing, is that they produced more PS3's than PS2's when introduced, over the same introduction period.

Considering how March and rest-of-the-world introduction is coming out, together with some 30+ new games, they better ramp up production because there will be shortages again.

People that complain about games forget that there will be 30+ new titles less than 2 months from now...

Yeah, good point, I see 360s stacked all the way to the moon everywhere.
Fry's built a pyramid with them.

I guess the retail channel must have been stuffed pretty hard to reach the 10M target.

Amazon had PS3s for a few days. Now they are out of stock again.
It comes and goes...people don't camp for them anymore because they know they don't need to.
A lot of them get sold as Blu-ray players.

360 are of course in stores. But they are certainly selling more than PS3. We will see this Christmas where all shortages should end and we should discuss.

Congrats Chief Ediri. You're the first of what I'm sure will be a long ignore list, now that I've decided to start using that feature.

I think we need a forum feature where all posts by people using a dollar sign instead of the letter S are automatically ignored.

wow, thank you so much for coming to this forum just to shower us with your infinite wisdom.

Of course Cheif Ediri is going to bash, he's a 14 year old and his mom only gives him $300 a month allowance. How's he gunna get a "P$3"?

Isn't it past your bedtime son?

I am not sure if this matters

I see shoppers come into stores and buy things " on major clearance prices " but things that are priced heavily aren't moving to well.

why

Because of the amount of money maybe spent during the holidays, some people are still recovering

I am glad you guys enjoyed my info.

I only get 20 dollars a week and I don't want a P$3 for mutiple reasons:

No good games or enough games down the line to warrant a purchase.
Price of course.
Does a 14 year old really need blu-ray or even HD-DVD for that matter when you only play on a SDTV? DVD will do fine until I can buy my own things like HDTV's and crap.

So many reasons I can bash P$3, but it is not like I don't like $ony completely, just the crap they do to actually make $ or profit is remarkable. I am OK with the PS2 I had, but the P$3 is a complete rip-off unless you are only really looking into a cheap Blu-Ray player. Other than that, P$3 is cash machine.

I will also like to see how I did not use the $ on PS2. I believe the PS2 has better marketing than the P$3 does due to the low price. I believe one of the reasons why the P$3 pricing was so high was because of a few reasons, maybe more:

Xbox 1 was graphically better than PS2
Xbox 1 loaded games faster than PS2

Those are the only 2 I can think of, but I am sure there is more.

I am not a troll and not a fanboy, but 500 dollars at lesst to get a system that can go obsolete in at least 2 more years due to the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray wars? No Thank You.

This is how I feel about Sony at this point in time. If you don't understand what I am saying, then you are ALL under a trap.

How dare Sony try to sell a high-quality, low-cost Blu-ray player that also plays next generation games?! And selling products to make a profit, what an evil corporation!

Thanks for enlightening me. I'll be returning mine first thing in the morning.



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Yes there are PS3's sitting around all over at retail locations but as more gaming titles show up over the next 2-3 months demand will increase and supply should be ready for those that want one . My guess is that Sony is trying to saturate the US market right now so that they can concentrate on the Euro launch that is coming soon . It would make no sense for Sony to have many big titles show up ( Feb. - Mar. ) but not have any more consoles available to increase their user base . The other obvious factor here is that it is right after X-mas and average consumers tend to spend less right after the holidays (as mentioned above) .

I am not defending Sony here as I really do not care for their arrogance most of the time but I can see logical reasons for the current stock situation being what it is (it's way too early to count Sony out of the game regardless of the other consoles current success) .

Sony needs some BIG titles and they need them soon to keep the ball rolling ( let's just hope we don't get a bunch of rushed product ) .

-------- Jason

They're not making a profit on the PS3 it's self so they are doing everyone a favor. lol The actual build price is around $800.00! They lose a ton on this thing.

Nintendo on the other hand makes money off consoles sold so are they the evil ones?

$600.00 is too much for a game console, but why people think that companies should just give them away blows my mind.