Playstation 3 PS3 Not Selling Out...

Taken from Games Radar:

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/ps3/ga...17123448328065&releaseId=20060314132311609002

The link above also shows a map of some stores they contacted about the PS3's availability.

 

On Kotaku they have a proper analyst who went to 52 stores, found 28 of them had at least one in stock.

 

No good games equals no console sales. I've yet to see a ps3 game that's gotten my interest. I'm suprised sony didn't have a couple must have titles on hand for launch. It's gonna cost them market share in the long run.

 

wait, people are berating sony for actually being able to stock stores with units?

 

Well, its not good if it doesn't sell out, right?

 

Well their supply chain is awful right now, which means if theres plenty of stock on the shelves, then the PS3 isn't selling as well as a console usually would so close to launch.

Looking like Sony did make some big mistakes here, seems the high price tag was enough to put off a lot of people who would've blindly bought it, if the price was a fair chunk lower.

However this doesn't really give a good view on the outcome of the 'next gen console battle', just because it's got a bit of a stalled start doesn't mean it's out of the running for the top console. The odds weren't in Sony's favor for the PS3's launch, the 360 had some really good deals on and had finally got some really decent games on the system, the PS3, as well as it's horribly high price tag, had the usual abysmal console launch titles. Also had the Wii launch around the time, which was far cheaper, unlike normal, the Wii actually had good launch games, Wii sports is possibly the only game you'll ever need for the Wii, as well as a couple of other good games.

Obviously the high price tag made a lot of people think twice before buying the PS3 blindly, and when they saw what other consoles had to offer, many people decided not to buy it.

 

ive played the ps3 on HDMI and I can say that the GFX are pretty impressive. I want a ps3 but there are no good titles yet and until the price drops. I will not be buying one. I didnt even like buying the 360 at 431.99.

everyone knew the pricetag would kill them

 

If Blu-ray had been secured as the format that would dominate the new high def disks then the price would be a bit more justified, but trying to make their new format win by cramming it in the PS3 under a lie that it's solely "to make it easier on developers" may have ended up killing their two new birds with one stone.

Still it's early days, but so far it's not good, because of the lackluster sales we might not see a price drop as soon as we'd like.

 

well a price drop isn't anywhere in the near future. in fact a price increase is what is going to happen.
http://www.gamersreports.com/news/4876/sony-raises-ps3-price-in-canada
also another thing that isn't being mentioned much about the whole blu vs hd thing is that blu said no porn. this may not seem like a big deal to most but if we remember our history this is basically what allowed vhs to destroy beta back in the day. HD is allowing it to happen so that is another hit to blu. anyway around here lately i have yet to find a place that does not have stock of the ps3, in fact toys are us gave me a good laugh. they were sold out of wii's they were sold out of xbox 360's but had a stack of ps3's that nobody wanted.

 

It's not that the blu-ray association won't allow porn, they do. The problem is Sony is refusing to allow them to be manufactured at Sony manufacturing plants, and they own like 90% of them.

 

I remember reading an article that Wii sales in Japan have slid down considerably. The holiday rush is over, and people who have just spent hundreds if not thousands on christmas presents are going to be going out and spending any right after christmas.

 

Well, I've just been all over my city for two days, used over a tank of gas, looking for a wii as I just got enough money together. I started near my apartment which is in about the middle of the city and did several circles, each time going further from the city, visiting every store that I knew of that carried videogames. Finally I just got one, basically in the next county, in a old walmart in a very ghetto area. It was the last one they had out of twenty they got the day before. So even in the lowest income area, the wii is selling out. I went in over fourty stores, maybe fifty and everyone said they just got 5 or ten or twenty (the newest walmart in the rich part of town had gotten thirty) the day before or in the last week and all had sold out quickly. Now, every store I went in had at least one ps3 sitting there and most had three to six. I even asked a couple of the clerks if they just got those in. "nope, a week ago" or " nah, they've been sitting there for two or three weeks.

Sorry, but the wii can't be found while ps3's are collecting dust. Too expensive, not enough uses for it. And, though I just got a 1080p lcd, no one else I know has a high def display and quite frankly the ps3 is a huge waste for the 90 percent of people in the US who don't have a high def tv. Thats why the ps2 is still selling, hell I hate sony but even I am kindof drawn to the ps2's low price and tons of great games now. But I am thinking that even good games cant save the ps3, it will be too expensive for years and by the time enough people have high def tv's to appreciate the expense of ps3, microsoft will probably be bringing out the xbox 720. The ps3, imo, has already failed.

Besides most of us are pc gamers here too, right? I got the wii for innovative gameplay, but if I want spiffy high def gaming, I'll put my 600 bucks into a 8800gtx. I expect to upgrade to a 2560x1600 display in a couple years and what good would a ps3 do me then?

 

I don't think anything could make the PS3 a "failure." It's only been out for a few months now, it has A LOT of time to pick up A LOT of steam. Realistically, it can only get better from here. When the big games start coming out they will start selling more systems. Even the Gamecube was considered a success for Nintendo and they were in a distant 3rd in the so called "console war."

Still too early to call this one! Wait a year.

Of course, we all know the Will is numero uno! (which is pretty surprising, considering it has very few games worth getting right now). Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii and I love my TLoZ:TP. But what else right now is really a system purchasing worthy GOOD game for Wii? Even TLoZ could be gotten on a GC. The Wii is selling great because it provides several things that the competition can not.

1. New, interesting control scheme. VG controls have pretty much always been the same. This new set-up is something that's interesting and fresh, especially to older gamers like me.

2. Virtual Console. The VC, IMO, blows XBLA out of the water. The ability to have full access to potentially thousands of classic games ready to play all in one spot it a great feature. I just beat Gunstar Heroes yesterday and had a ton of fun playing. Gunstar Heroes represents EXACTLY what the VC is for. It brings those old, forgotten, underrated, under appreciated GREAT games, like Gunstar Heroes, and lets the old timers re-discover them and the new gamers get a taste of what good retro gaming was all about back in the golden era.

3. Incredible value. The Wii brings a new, innovative form of playing, as well as great features such as the forcast+news channels, the virtual console, web browser, Miis (which ARE cool, yes I thought they were lame at first too, but if you had my Friend Code and my Mii "Freakshow" showed up in your frickin' game of baseball, you'd be laughing your ass off). The Wii also has the build quality, attention to detail, and 'complete" feeling that you would expect from a great console. All for 250 bucks.

It may not be the pinnacle of technology, it may not have a 2593 JIGGAWATTS 500 core CPU and a super duper video card, but it screams "gaming" where as the competition is more about bigger and better graphics. I guess you could say that the Xbox360 and PS3 are the Terminator 3s and the Wii is Letters from Iwo Jima. And we all know who's walking out of the academy awards with a prize in hand out of those two choices.

 

Well, it's possible that the stock is just being sent to the wrong places.

Over here, New England - Rhode Island, nobody has them. At each store, I'm told that they aren't selling well by some sales guy, and when I ask if I can have one they tell me they're out of stock.

So they must be reading too many Xbox360 Fanboy sites. Because nobody has them in stock. One guy actually said "well, we had 10 of them a couple days ago but they're gone now. Nintendo is really beating the hell out of Sony." I didn't even ask what that meant.

I understand the Wii is very popular right now but it's not a very powerful machine and the Wiimote is really gimmicky. I don't like it much at all, it's annoying. I like the proven controls of a Gamepad. Wii sells because it's touted as a "Next Generation" console but it's basically the same guts as a GameCube, so it was really cheap to produce. Thus the low price tag.

But it's not just the power of the machine. The PS3 is a fine machine. It's got a solid set of features, a built in hard disk, free online services without some odd "Friend Codes" thing, and you can install Linux on it, which runs very well. For some of us geeks, it's not just a game machine it's also an HTPC.

I'll end up with all of the new systems eventually, but I really like the PS3 so I'm going with that one first. I don't think it will fail at all - not after Sony spent so much money on it. There will be some great games for it I have no doubt - Especially since any development house that puts out a great game is going to have a very captive audience.

So while the rumors of consoles collecting dust on the 360 Fan sites continue, I'll be waiting for one to become available in the NorthEast.

 

The Wii sells because it is marketed correctly, it's easy to use, cheap to buy, and it's a toy.

Nintendo use Viral marketing to spread the Wii-Word, they choose power figures within micro communities to promote it by having Wii-parties before launch, so home makers with lots of friends, popular kids, tech kids and so on.

The PS3 has been marketed completely wrong IMHO.

 

Sony are doing this badly across the states, so how badly are they going to do in Europe?

SAm

 

The thing is, the PS3 is mainly promoted at the graphical pimping machine, whereas the wii is promoted as fun gameplay, which in a game for most people is what matters. Out of a choice between a game with amazing graphics and poor gameplay (a few games come to mind), and a game with poorer graphics, but provides decent gameplay, most people would take gameplay. For one reason it increases the longetivity of the use of the game, because people will feel compelled to play it again.

The XB360? the reason that's selling reasonably well, is mainly because it's been out a fair while, the prices have come down a smidgen, and also it's fanbase is gathering from people playing at them whilst either round a mates or in a gaming store, or similar. Also, it's good graphics without having to remortgage your home, whilst selling your soul at the same time...

 

everyone here in the UK is still hot for sony - so i think it will rip everything a new one. although the attitudes in more enlightened people are beginning to shift, i think the overwhelming majority still wants a ps3.

 

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=99765

 

Taken from Games Radar:

"It's no secret that Sony's financial team has been on the ropes recently, but a senior exec has said that a price cut could be a factor in the firm's plans to break even in fiscal 2007.

"We may look at the price as part of our strategy to expand the market when the timing is right," Senior Vice President Takao Yuhara told reporters in Tokyo. "Such factors, including price cuts to some extent, are factored in under the plan to break even in fiscal 2007."

Sony has already shaved a few bucks off of the price of PS3 in Japan, but the company is holding the line regarding knocking down the price down in the US, UK and Europe."


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