Consoles were sitting on shelves earlier January too. This guy is doing the best he can to keep shareholders happy. I wonder what he is going to say when Sony can't reach their 6 million march 31st target. At some point Sony is going to have to face facts and stop hiding from their mistakes. Their PS3 has been on a downward slide for over a year now. Time to face reality and more towards growing from that. Saying that you had a successful launch and calling the very popular Wii a gimmick, is only going to attracted bad press when your console is performing badly in sales, news media, blogs and some of your own fans.

The PS3 is doing better than the PS2 did over the same time period after launch, and we all know which console dominated the last generation.

i know two stores in fact 10 minutes from my house that have had the same PS3's for a month now. is this thing real or should i just forget about telling anyone? and if i should. then how do i do it

Of course it is, the PS2 was only launched in Japan, March 2000. The released in North America on October 26, 2000 (7 months) and in Europe on November 24, 2000 (8 months).





And is the complete list of launch titles for the Japanese launch.



* DrumMania

* Eternal Ring

* FantaVision

* Kessen

* Stepping Selection

* Street Fighter EX3

* Ridge Racer V



That's it.



See how Sony likes to twist things :)

I already got one so i dont really care but where i live in florida its still pretty hard to get a PS3.

Well the Wii is totally destroying the PS3 sales in Japan by 3 to 1 and now the 360 sales are going up there to so I would predict that the PS3 as far as Japan goes it will eventually end up in Third spot.

i think SNE shareholders are happy right now especially after Nov. 17 2006.

Sux that the Xbox360 is getting destroyed in japan by the PS3. I'm sorry, Blue Dragon won't save the 360 in Japan.

if someone make a big deal out of it, he can simply reply that he said ON SHELVE, behind the counter and whatnot.

notice how Bestbuy have those ps3 on ground stacking on top of each other, or behind the counter on ground.



whatever he said is to have people think they can get around 600-700 dollar profit(499usd for 20gb) for buying some in stock for days, but what happen after? who do you contact?

Is the article even consider a contract?

if legal action ever happen, he will simply said he mentioned ON SHELVE, and really don't see any ps3 on shelve ever. Did any of you guys?

I live in Georgia and when I go in Wal Mart there were three in the case and went back the next day and then there were none. The Circuit City I work at here we have 2 PS3's in the warehouse. I think the reason for that is because customers don't think we have them but they don't see them out on the floor locked up.

Here in tyler TX every one of the 3 gamestops in town has AT LEAST 2 PS3's and a big sign out front that says "PS3 NOW AVAILABLE!" and they've been here more than a week.

I fact that the PS3 isn't selling out in Japan is a major problem. It's where sony has it's most loyal fans. The 360 started with very little fans in Japan because it's an American console. Your right that MS is going to remain in 3rd in Japan, but I'm amazed by it's recent sales figures, and give MS credit for not giving up on the region. More good Japanese 360 games will come.

Darkelite, the reason they're not up for sale is because of those 2 PS3s are backups, in-case someone gets a faulty one and it needs to be replaced.