Second Shipment of PS3 in

[patsu]

Hmm... given the current situation, their launch number is fine as long as their manufacturing machinery kicks in for subsequent shipments quickly. This is the key that will stablize the situation over the long run, so they should start early.

In my view, the flies in the ointment are the "rushed" product packaging and lack of marketing comms... not the # of launch units on launch day itself.

EDIT: Anyone knows when third shipment will come ? I asked the local GameCrazy/EB, they say there is another one before Christmas. Are there more ?

 

[Arwin]

I'm thinking we'll get a delay between shipments as Sony makes the transition from flying in units (a few days from factory to retail) to shipping them over sea (at least six weeks). The question is how many they decide to try to fly in before Christmas. I would assume they make the transition afterwards, but who knows. We'll be able to tell soon enough, though. They claim to have a maximum capacity of 1.2 million units a month, which means 600.000 for Japan and the U.S. each, but the U.S. numbers could be coming in with a 6 week delay, depending on how much they are interested in spending on PR / Air Freight.

 

[London Geezer]

Oh erm.... COUGH....

Where exactly did i get 0.04% from?!

SORRY!!!

I'm officially stupid.

Anyway, my point was that they are both such low percentages, and so low compared to the total number of people who actually wanted a PS3, that in the end the difference is not that much, since they would have had to apologise for not meeting demand anyway. 1M would have been much better of course, but between 400k and 200k, it's really not enough to warrant another delay. Especially if we consider Sony's position. That was my point, i never said 200k is fine (or 100 "adequate", scooby), i just said that it should not have made Sony delay it once again.

 

[wco81]

I'm thinking we'll get a delay between shipments as Sony makes the transition from flying in units (a few days from factory to retail) to shipping them over sea (at least six weeks). The question is how many they decide to try to fly in before Christmas. I would assume they make the transition afterwards, but who knows. We'll be able to tell soon enough, though. They claim to have a maximum capacity of 1.2 million units a month, which means 600.000 for Japan and the U.S. each, but the U.S. numbers could be coming in with a 6 week delay, depending on how much they are interested in spending on PR / Air Freight.

I think Sony has said they would air freight throughout the Holidays.

But it's 8 days from China to Oakland. Probably similar to Long Beach.

Probably a lot longer to the East Coast.

 

[dobwal]

Probably, but Sony can easily claim the 1m shipped anyway. And crow about how they hit target.

Just like microsoft did, NPD for 360 NOV/DEC 2005 was 607k. microsoft reported 1.5m shipped WW by Dec 31. Granted, that included Europe, but there is a lot of waggle room in shipped figures (and of course shipped includes the next 4-6 weeks of sales).

So we'll probably see something like 500k nov/dec combined NPD and a Sony press release stating they shipped a million to North America around the same time.

1 million squeezed from 500K is a lot of waggle room. If NPD's 360 #s for the US was 607K show me where MS released shipped numbers of 2005 of 1.2 million from the US alone. You are going from MS allegedly misreporting ship numbers by 10-15% and using that as an evidence that Sony can get away with misreporting ship numbers by 100%