Sony's biggest folly or secret motive?
My parent-in-laws were going to get my brother-in-law (man I hate those in-law terms) a PS2 for christmas. They apparently thought it was a great idea to wait until the week before christmas to get it, even though they'd known they were going to get it for a month.
As everyone probably knows, you can't find them anywhere (at least the new ones). At first I thought it was like the iPod. Everyone says they're sold out everywhere, but you can still find one if you look hard enough. And they're only sold out because they did have them, but they were all bought. With the PS2 it's different. The stores never had any to begin with. I see all these signs up saying "sorry but PS2 is not in stock due to problems with manufacturrer shipping".
I remember 3 days after thanksgiving I was in Urbana, IL visiting college, and stopped at the new EB games there. While I was there, someone was looking to buy one. They said they had gotten in 9 that morning, and were already down to 4. I don't think they ever got anymore in.
Why am I rambling? I personally don't care about the PS2 at all. I think it's an unexiting system, and the slimmer revamp is just as unexciting (actually I heard a rumor that the original PS2's were manufactured shoddily and are all expected to break down next year, so people will have to buy a new model. Of course this was a clerk at a game store, so he probably just had his Big Book Of Video Game Lies on hand to convince people to buy the latest hot thing. Makes me laugh though since my Nintendo system from 1986 still works almost 20 years later.). But anyway, some people in my family-in-law care. And it got me thinking anyway.
From the apparent demand, Sony could have sold record numbers of these this christmas and made huge revenue. They must be losing millions from this gaffe.
But such a huge empire, and with tons of chinese slave labor, and the unit apparently works since they sold some already, what is preventing them from shipping more? I think it's something more devious.
But what, I can't really think up anything good. Except maybe they decided sales of the new PS2 would take away from future sales of the PS3. Or maybe the US government is askinng them to embed intelligence collecting devices in the units, so that they can monitor potential terrorists by seeing who plays all those sniper games or something.
I dunno.
JMT.
My parent-in-laws were going to get my brother-in-law (man I hate those in-law terms) a PS2 for christmas. They apparently thought it was a great idea to wait until the week before christmas to get it, even though they'd known they were going to get it for a month.
As everyone probably knows, you can't find them anywhere (at least the new ones). At first I thought it was like the iPod. Everyone says they're sold out everywhere, but you can still find one if you look hard enough. And they're only sold out because they did have them, but they were all bought. With the PS2 it's different. The stores never had any to begin with. I see all these signs up saying "sorry but PS2 is not in stock due to problems with manufacturrer shipping".
I remember 3 days after thanksgiving I was in Urbana, IL visiting college, and stopped at the new EB games there. While I was there, someone was looking to buy one. They said they had gotten in 9 that morning, and were already down to 4. I don't think they ever got anymore in.
Why am I rambling? I personally don't care about the PS2 at all. I think it's an unexiting system, and the slimmer revamp is just as unexciting (actually I heard a rumor that the original PS2's were manufactured shoddily and are all expected to break down next year, so people will have to buy a new model. Of course this was a clerk at a game store, so he probably just had his Big Book Of Video Game Lies on hand to convince people to buy the latest hot thing. Makes me laugh though since my Nintendo system from 1986 still works almost 20 years later.). But anyway, some people in my family-in-law care. And it got me thinking anyway.
From the apparent demand, Sony could have sold record numbers of these this christmas and made huge revenue. They must be losing millions from this gaffe.
But such a huge empire, and with tons of chinese slave labor, and the unit apparently works since they sold some already, what is preventing them from shipping more? I think it's something more devious.
But what, I can't really think up anything good. Except maybe they decided sales of the new PS2 would take away from future sales of the PS3. Or maybe the US government is askinng them to embed intelligence collecting devices in the units, so that they can monitor potential terrorists by seeing who plays all those sniper games or something.
I dunno.
JMT.
