360 restocking.. in January??

We only got about 20 core and 11 premium (All snatched up by preorders). Now, in terms of when our distributor says they will get more in: Anywhere from a few weeks to January, lastest being February.

 

Wierd. Microsoft swears they are sending weekly shipments to ditributors. I wonder if there is some hoarding taking place somewhere between MS and the local stores. Maybe they too are seeing the eBay prices and figure why sell to a store when they call sell themselves online for a much higher price...?

 

Microsoft needs to make a public announcement about the next major shipment already. They can't possibly expect that piss-poor excuse of a first shipment to do any good for the 360's public image. If they don't capitalize on the shopping rush of the season then this rushed launch will have been pointless, as more and more people will quickly begin saying things along the lines of "f' this, im waiting for PS3".

 

Well, if there is weekly shipments: it's to the bigger stores (We are a small, privatly owned store without a chain). Sort of like the PS2: We didn't see any new shipments for a while when bigger chain stores started to get theirs in stock.

 

It's to the bigger stores. Distributors will get some as well, but they will in turn likely reserve them for their best accounts.

-hl718

 

And I wonder how many of those were actually available to the customers and how many ended up in managerial hands. The most any non-BB/non-preorder store had around here was 10+4. Everyone is saying January/February or just outright laughing and walking away. Hell, Target has actually stopped even answering the phone.

The EB that I have one of my "guaranteed first shipments, but oh wait we sent out all of the preorders to the online $800 bundle people who preordered months after you" at says they may get their second shipment in next week. I am waiting for the class action lawsuit against EB/Gamestop for fraud and breach of contract, or the one against MS for mental anguish for having to endure those awful jump rope and water balloon commercials.

 

Wonder if people from japan will start buying up units and selling them on ebay.

 

BTW - Does anyone have the # of initial PS2's allocated for the US launch? Everyone seems to be knocking MS for a "piss poor launch" but i'm fairly sure they shipped far more 360's for the US launch than Sony did of the PS2......and I fail to see how selling out makes it a poor launch, seems quite the opposite to me.

Oh, and anyone taking PS3 preorders yet? ;-) Can never be too early...

 

If I remember correctly, we got about 25 PS2's at launch (A little less then the total ammount of 360's). Now, in terms of PS3 orders: my boss decided to only start taking preorders once the price is finalised for North America (Although it will be different in other stores).

 

Yea, I'm thinking as soon as preorders are being done at most places i'll go to various stores and preorder like 5, keep 1 and eBay the other 4. Worst case scenario I doubt i'd have trouble selling them at a minor mark up...."best" case scenario, there are major shortages and the winner is me ;-)

/Yea, when you can't find a PS3 cause they are sold out, you can yell at the jerks like me ;p

 

Distribrutors are stocking up before they are sending them out stores like best buy, gamestop. Mid December they should be back in stock with some, not a lot, but some.

 

Sony ONLY made 250,000 PS2 units for USA launch. THey could've made more, but they didn't because they suck like that. I wasn't until a month later when stores were restocked with PS2 and not until 3 months until they had full stock of them.

I might preorder 3 PS3s at different locations and resell them for pure profit. I'm sure sony will deliberately produce like 250K like they did for the PS2. The price probably wont be announced until spring. I'm not too sure when exactly the PS3 debuts in Japan, is it this spring or is sony going to do an international release?

 

well sadly its a priority bases, its first goes to discount stores like walmart and target, then onto specialty stores like best buy, eb, gamestop, circuit city, etc, but places like toys r us or independent stores get the end shift cause they have what is conisdered the lowest audience to reach, its marketing really, oddly there was a time you went to toy r us to get a new game or system, now its the complete opposite. Oddly enough im guessing the eb is getting them due to cover pre orders mostly, belive me they got to tend to that crowd first before they even touch an independent or toy store like toys r us. Now that i thinka bout it, is toys r us in a decline since most people dont really go there anymore to get games?

 

Like everyone else I've no doubt that stores will have more stock before January. Getting one before then will still be really difficult though.

To whomever asked the question, I bought my PS2 on launch day at the same Target I got my 360. They had over twenty PS2's (22 if I remember correctly) at launch. For the 360 they had twelve. Four Premium units and eight Core units.

Finally about a class action suit against Gamestop/EB Games. Normally I'm against such suits since I believe they're frivolous. In this case however I believe one should be brought. They knew full well there was going to be a shortage and they went ahead anyway. Managers are encouraged to take as many preorders as they can because the sale is recorded when you preorder and not when you receive the system. They’re screwing people over to make their bottom line look better.

 

Don't worry too much about a shortage before christmas... Ooooh cryptic.

 

I've heard there are 300,000 allocated for Europe. One major high-street electrical store has been allocated 18,000 units UK wide.

I think MS want the 360 to be the most sought after item for Christmas this year. Make it headline news about shortages. Trickle them out so that people hold on to their money just in case they can get one. Then people will have the money in January to buy them rather than giving up and buying something else.