That's the article author summarizing what he thinks House is trying to say in the next paragraph. I disagree with their summary, it seems like he is saying that they want to have consoles in a large number of regions, while not having any severe shortages in those regions.
Seems like the author injecting his own thoughts, no?
He was using what they gave him, if they can't provide a working version of one of their main software to "journalists" for testing purposes a week before, I don't think they'll have working ones for release. Yeah yeah maybe it won't be a piece of shit in 2years, doesn't mean shit though because it could still very well be, who knows. But regardless I'm not arguing about the console being worth it or not, however that feature looked like shit and will probably be shit for a while, if not forever(until the xbox zero or whatever other fucking stupid name they come up with).
Yeah, with the Xbone coming this Friday, you can be assured that Sony is doing everything they can to keep supply in-stock.
The author is pretty much spot on. Perception is everything with these things. People will be able to get them, but they wont ship so many out right away so then can't say "SOLD OUT". It's just basic marketing and I don't blame them for it. To say that they don't take advantage of temp shortages is pretty unrealistic.
Uh, you quoted the article author, not the guy. The guy didn't say perception.
i traded my launch 360 in last sunday. You take it to the customer service counter, which was next to the geek squad and online pickup desks. They hook up the console to a TV and scan the barcode on the back (so make sure its scannable), and require a working controller (wired or wireless) and hard drive in the system. It has to boot, they didn't test a game or anything on mine but just made sure it got to dashboard. Mine hadn't been turned on in 4+ years. Also got 100% bonus on all the games I traded in, really really really old shit like madden 2008, Halo4, Bioshock 2, etc but still got like $40 for 20+ games that I was gonna just donate.
They have a short term shortage which is good for them but they will make sure they fill the demand by christmas. Companies do this shit all the time. Don't even understand why it's being debated. Don't be surprised if PS4's show up this Friday.
Probably not explaining myself well. They could have shipped more but sold out looks really good. They will have enough supply by xmas so they don't lose sales to the bone. All that free press they got with "sold out", idiots paying 1k on ebay and "hot xmas item stories is priceless. Anyway derailed this shit long enough. I want a fucking working PS4.
What problems? My PS4 and all of its features are working perfectly, especially "Social Shit" like Twitch Streaming (which the Xbone won't have until sometime in 2014). There's no hardware issue, a few defective units popped up per normal shit and have been pretty much forgotten, because it wasn't widespread.
No, they could have shipped more, but it would have cut into Europe's supply. They'll ship more to the US when they have a high enough allocated amount manufactured for shipping. They're not going to ship 50k or 100k here or there, they do it in large batches due to the logistics of it all which is some pretty huge shit with the volume they deal with.
I hear climate change is a sham because the arctic ice cap increased by 60% from last year!
Heh, Utnayan neg'd me when I inferred that global warming was real and his comment was along those lines (+ "Filthy liberal.").
"Sometime in 2014" is some vague shit, they didn't even say early. It could mean anything from January (unlikely) to December.
