Fewer PS3 Units Tomorrow Than Hoped For?

Gamasutra is reporting on the possibility that there may only be 150,000 - 200,000 PS3s available tomorrow. Kotaku has heard that this may stem from removal of the 20 GB units from the shipment to the U.S., though this is just speculation at the moment. Several bloggers have noted that their local videogames store has notified them of lowered availability, so it doesn't seem that this is outside the realm of possibility. From the article: "'Due to the limited initial installed base of the platforms, we believe the financial impact over the holiday period will be more significant for hardware manufacturers and video game retailers (such as GameStop) than for software publishers.' In addition to predicting a strong push for Xbox 360 products due to a shortage in PS3 supply, Sebastian also says the newly launched consoles may not have as significant an impact on holiday sales." A reader also wrote in to mention the cost that Sony is sucking with each of these units. Apparently, the company is eating about $300 for every PS3 sold.

Comments

Re:figures

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn man, I know people want FP, but slow the fuck down and type in English!

Extrapolating

[UbuntuDupe]

So, at E3 there were going to be a million, then they had to reduce it to 400,000 a few months before launch. Then the day before, the announced there would only be 200,000. So I'm expecting them at about 6pm to say they only have 100,000 in retail stores, then at 9pm, they'll announce that due to an error some boxes did not have a PS3 placed in them before shipping, so really stores only have 50,000 or so, and then at 11 they'll announce contract dispute with retailers, meaning only 20,000 will be allowed to be sold, and at midnight they'll announce that the North American launch has been delayed until March 2007.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Linguo to the rescue!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello,

This is Linguo, the Grammar Robot. I see that you are trying to communicate with people on the Internet. After reading your message, it's obvious you either suffered a severe epileptic fit while trying to type or you need help making your message clear.

Assuming it's the latter, here are my suggestions. You wrote:

I knew this would happen, it too new of techongly, the parts for the ps3 are hard to make, and thuis sluppy is short, this could really hurt sony

You probably meant to write:

I knew this would happen. The Blu-Ray technology is too new and hard to manufacture, creating a limited supply of PS3 consoles and other Blu-Ray players. The lack of units for sale could really hurt Sony.

Had you been coherent enough, Slashdot would have been blessed with clear but obvious statements that look like a desperate attempt to boost your karma. I hope for your sake that you were indeed suffering from an epileptic seizure and are smarter than you appear.

Regards,
Linguo

Re:FEWER?

[GrayCalx]

Just make sure not to hook it up to your friend's real/positive PS3. If they collide the universe ends.

Since when is Taiwan a country?

[MooseTick]

I thought you were owned by China now. That means "your" country only has 500 PS3s for 1 billion people!