No its just the fact that if you cant put consoles on the shelf, they wont sell.
And once again, sony furbishes a lie so that consumers rush out to get a ps3 they -expect- to be there, but isnt.
By doing this , they raise the demand over the supply falsely. The demand was not good for the ps3, just like the press. But, since its a hard to aquire item due to a ficticious demand which is created by short supply, people have to get this "rare" item.
And i think back to how people ranked on ms for the short supply of 360s. BAHAHAHAHA. Every fucking sony fanboy was chiming in on that wernt they.
Fact is, to sell fucking consoles, they have to be on the shelves for people to access. Nintendo and Ms seem to be the only ones capable of this "feat".