We got a lot of stocks here, come get em!
Scene from my local game store.
#PS4LIFE
Wooooooooooooot! Where are you from? Where? :O
btw.
I hope Amir0x isn't perm'd :/
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Sony: PS4 Demand Will Outstrip Supply Into the Summer
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Wooooooooooooot! Where are you from? Where? :O
btw.
I hope Amir0x isn't perm'd :/
Nightengale
Member
Malaysia, the land that will not an official Xbox One release this year because we're supposedly made up of pirate scum who will never pay more than $3 for a game.
/joke and truths
Yoda
Member
If it exceeded sales expectations they would have announced it. I'm sure it sold well and they will get a decent boost in march in U.S. sales but the rest of your post sounds like a fairy-tale. What will the announce in April that equates to Titanfall from March? What about May?
NPD will come out, +100k boost to X1, with most of Titanfall's sales coming from people who already purchased the console in anticipation. I imagine they won't release the bundle only sales.
Anos Voldigoad
Member
I don't really care about the Xbone and neither are my buddies. So that news, is kinda like a hit and burn for us.
Anos Voldigoad
Member
Nightengale
Member
It's not hard to find an Xbox One anyway.. I think I saw like 3 Titanfall bundles last week.
I just think it's sad that global companies look at SEA and treat it as "Singapore, nowhere else exist."
On amazon.de PS4 is available for 20% premium, straight from scalpers.
What is the average income there?
What is the average income there?
Nightengale
Member
$1000 to $1500 a month.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Take us to the promised land of Malaysia where we can find stacks of PS4's for everyone. Unlike New zealand where the false prophet Oconomoyaki said we would find stack and stacks of PS4's.
Nightengale
Member
Our PS4 cost $540 after currency conversion.
CadetMahoney
Member
Wow, was he banned again?
Take a trip to Hungary. Booze is cheap, the weather is awsome and you can buy a new PS4 for 410. AFAIK sony warranty applies to the whole continent.
FeiRR
Banned
I'm not surprised about Malaysia. As I posted yesterday, it's not a problem to find a PS4 now in Poland. You will probably find PS4 everywhere around the world where it's officially launched but the price is just too much for an average consumer to swallow. Dedicated gamers are a relatively small group, the mass market will wait for a much lower price and a lot more games.
Western Europe GAF wanting to buy a PS4, you need to go on a shopping trip. European warranty should have you covered everywhere.
Western Europe GAF wanting to buy a PS4, you need to go on a shopping trip. European warranty should have you covered everywhere.
It will be "incredible success" if they manage 15. But I don't think they will manage even that with the dry summer. Lets wait and see game lineup for the fall.
ProfessorMoran
Member
It may be best for them to fall flat on their fucking face this generation to teach everybody including Sony and Nintendo a lesson that a weaker $499 console with an accessory nobody fucking wants is never a good idea. This is also the only real way to make sure that the right people is in charge of the xbone.
I have only seen one PS4 in the wild and i tried to buy it, but i ended up selling the privilege to buy it to some desperate parent who offered to give me 50 bucks to buy it(I didnt purchase it yet, i was moving towards the cashier)
Never seen an Xbone yet though, that feel when second tier country(Netherlands).
Never seen an Xbone yet though, that feel when second tier country(Netherlands).
PJV3
Member
Snapped this shot in Beijing the other day. It was the same at the other 10 stores in Gulou area.
I guess we know where all the Japanese PS4's are going!
What's in the white boxes?, the bottom ones are half the size of the top ones.
I'm on my phone so I cant read the box to tell what it is. PS4 something pack?
Give me more details (where exactley can you buy them)? I planned to visit Budapest anyway.
Monty Mole
Member
I think you need a new phone!
PJV3
Member
Yeah I keep thinking that myself lol.
I know it says PS4, I was wondering if it was a limited edition or something.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Nah the boxes just have a gradient design
travisbickle
Member
Sony's lying, demand for their product doesn't outstrip supply. Just take a holiday to Poland/Thailand if you want one.
It says "Playstation 4 First Limited Pack"
They are still fairly hard to come by locally here in my part of Florida. When I finally decided to grab one, it took me a good two weeks before I was able to get it locally and when I did, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I've enjoyed every minute of it since though. I was a PS360 owner last generation, but I admit that I bought and played almost all games on the 360, except for the few PS3 exclusives. Those roles will probably be reversed this go around. All of my pre-orders are now for the PS4 versions of games, leaving the One for exclusives and the few MP games the bulk of my friends on One decide to buy.
My how times change.
I've enjoyed every minute of it since though. I was a PS360 owner last generation, but I admit that I bought and played almost all games on the 360, except for the few PS3 exclusives. Those roles will probably be reversed this go around. All of my pre-orders are now for the PS4 versions of games, leaving the One for exclusives and the few MP games the bulk of my friends on One decide to buy.
My how times change.
Now they are $449 at Wal-Mart too, according to their website. Seems obvious to state that bundles that are already a good deal don't get significant price cuts 10 days or less after release if they are selling well.
aka the Japanese bundle that includes Knack.
If they only estimate supply to be low for a few months, probably better to leave things alone, let supply build up over the quieter summer, and start to stockpile for fall/winter.
If their projections show them anticipating a big uptick in the fall, then it think you'd look at opening more lines - you wouldn't want to lose those prospective customers
If every PS4 console was in a central location, not shipped to any nation, and the product didn't ship to any nation until a consumer made the purchase, every PS4 they produce would be gone.
Yeah a couple countries don't have demand outstripping supply since we live in a ship-to-retailer-and-hope-it-sells retail supply structure, and I'm sure future supply to those countries has been diverted to the many other places displaying huge thirst of demand.
Clinton514
Member
Will Amazon.com ship to Canada?
SniperHunter
Banned
this is bad, I just went to walmart this week to buy MGSGZ and they still didn't have any PS4's.
They are handing sales to Microsoft
They are handing sales to Microsoft
bananafactory
Banned
It seems to depend on what you're ordering. Gaming related items have never worked for me though. When you get to checkout it tells you they cannot ship to your address
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
They've got stacks of stuff overseas, so bring those red controllers to the US.
Clinton514
Member
It seems to depend on what you're ordering. Gaming related items have never worked for me though. When you get to checkout it tells you they cannot ship to your address
ptuck874
Member
We got a lot of stocks here, come get em!
Scene from my local game store.
#PS4LIFE
i want red ds4!!!! where is it be!!!
I actually saw an employee selling one to a customer today at a Best Buy when I picked up Infamous. That's the first time I've seen one in a store here, obviously some stores have them so YMMV. Homemade sign up said they have limited stock available and to ask an employee. US GAF here.
SwiftDeath
Member
Canada is apparently not one of Sony's priorities right now. Sucks though
Canada, UK, Germany, Certain areas of the US and so on
It's not sold out, but supply constrained. Consumers will look for PS4's on shelves at retail stores most often to buy consoles. It's still inconsistent to see them on shelves in the US
Where are you located anyways?
I frequently see PS4s at the wal-mart closest to me. I live in Charlotte, NC but I'm really out in Stallings, NC so maybe that's why. I've been there a few times in the last couple of months and they always have two or three consoles. I almost bought one too.....but money an shit
bananafactory
Banned
Edmonton, Canada here. Was at Gamestop (one of the busiest ones in the city) for the Infamous midnight launch last night, and they said they haven't recieved PS4 systems in over a month and a half.
So yeah...supply issues.
So yeah...supply issues.
spatenfloot
Member
I expect 12 to 15 million by the end of 2014. Demand will slow eventually and they can only produce so many units anyway.
bananafactory
Banned
Relevant for fellow Canadians, PS Canada just tweeted this:
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Relevant for fellow Canadians, PS Canada just tweeted this:
This will be the ultimate test for Sony because PS4 has been out of stock since forever in Canada, and also they recently increased the price to $450 so let's see how well it sells compared to XBO.
SwiftDeath
Member
Relevant for fellow Canadians, PS Canada just tweeted this:
PS Canada stop trolling. 3 new PS4's in the whole of Canada is not worth a tweet
/s
Hopefully some of those lesser stocked countries with demand can get stocked properly going forward
Do we ever get numbers from Canada though?
I always thought Canada numbers were mixed into the NPD, but I could be wrong.
West end or south side? I live in Edmonton and have been looking for a PS4 as well...