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Originally Posted by MontanaXVI
I am running into a pre order problem here in Columbus OH, I went into 2 EB Games and one Gamestop (both owned by Gamestop though) and none of them are taking any sort of pre orders at all due to the fact they have no idea how many systems they are going to be getting at each store, I got a line in one shop about Sony only putting out 1 million a month for the first 6 months with Japan slated to get hald that number each month, leaving the rest of the WORLD with 500k units.
I cannot put too much stock into that, as I have not seen numbers like that anywhere online, at least not from any reputable place. The other problem I have is how can they say no pre's because they don't know how many they will get, they don't know how many they will get any other time and they always do a pre order on everything new that comes out. I used to work at Toys R Us and we had no idea what was coming it just showed up, we knew we would be getting XX game or system but no set numbers on how many until it showed, I can only imagine EB and GS are pretty much the same way.
Can anyone input on any of this info?
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Basically they got really burned on the Xbox 360 pre-orders and had to refund alot of people's money before the launch day who they called and told they weren't getting one.
The numbers that person told you about how many PS3 systems will be available worldwide are correct, there is an article on gamespy with some VP saying exactly that, except they aren't saying what the allocation % will be for each market, probably it will be Europe that will be shafted. So probably 2 million ps3 systems for US market from Launch in November until Jan 1. About the same availability as 360 and a little better than PS2.
The allocation for 360 systems was roughly 12 systems per store unless you were an A+ reseller like Best Buy for example then you received 20. I have no idea how many on avg gamestop or EB received but I got 12 at my store.
My guess would be that PS3 launch will be very similar to 360 with no availability anywhere and the prices will be even more insane on ebay etc because of the high starting point of $500 and the fact most everyone will want the $600 unit.
The manager at the Gamestop said they will announce a pre-sell date for both the Wii and PS3 at their annual manager's conference next month.