The limited supply of PS3's was intentional....

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Seriously, with the news watching the riots, shootings and muggings and then Entertainment Tonight and Insider Access covering the PS3 non-stop about how "Demand overwealming supply!" and "The PlayStation 3 Video Game Console is definatley this years MUST HAVE ITEM!"...

All this is free advertising for Sony, they really don't have to buy 1 ad. IT also helps Nintendo in a way, when parents walk in tommorow looking for a PS3, they will buy their son a Wii seeing that it is in-stock and cheaper!
 
Seriously, it wasn't intentional.

Sorny needs to sell all the PS3s they can, even at a loss, to make back some money, eventually, for the laptop battery fiascos.
 
You seriously don't think at all... AT ALL... That they weren't planning any of this hype...

I mean it is only the same thing as Kiss' "SS".
 
I just think its sad that it was supposed to be released last spring, and when they finally did release it this month they had a VERY limited supply.
 
Of course it was fucking intensional. Sony knows what they are doing.

Microsoft did it, Sony is doing it now.

This time next year, there will be millions of PS3s.
 
The shortages are real. Blue diodes are in very limited supply, and will continue to be in short supply for the next few years. The Blu-Ray player is why so few PS3s are available (the shortage will continue to be a problem into the middle of 2007).

Japan only launched with 80,000 units a week ago. If the shortages weren't real, they would have surely launched with more units. Oh, and they canceled the European launch completely.

There is no way this is some publicity stunt. Sony simply can't manufacture many PS3s because there is such a small suppply of blue diodes. That is fact.
 
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400848

And that 400,000 US launch units figure is bogus. That is what Sony was claiming a month ago. The real shipped number was closer to 200,000 units, as we will all find out in a week or so when sales numbers come out. Every retailer had their promised units cut almost in half.
 
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