kyleb said:
You spent an hour that came down to you posting links to articles about the Dreamcast and PS2 shortages that were due to hardware/manufacturing problems; and I'm not even going to bother asking you again how you think that explains away anything here.
I spent an hour explaining how shipping works
For gamestop (here is the example again incase u weren't paying attention)
The units are shipped from china . They arrive in the usa x amount of days later. They then have to go through customs that takes x amount of time.
Then after customs they are shipped to an ms or third party company to be shipped to the proper chains . They are then sent to gamestop warehouses that are around the world. Then from there gamestop ships them ups to each store depending on the amount of units and who gets what .
Once it hits gamestops warehouses that is it , its no longer up to ms . Gamestops warehouses could take a few days to ship to each store .
It normaly takes us a full week to get restock in on anything .
I gave the example of mario kart in another thread. We got in x amount of copys and sold through them . It then took a week for nintendo to make more . The same happend with gta for the psp .
That is how retail works . Ms doesn't magicly beam them to stores. There is alot of time between them hitting this country and them hitting the store for someone to buy them .
Its not hard to grasp and its not hard if you spent anytime in retail . But as you said you only spent 6 months .
As for your comments about me pointing out things form other launches . IT was to catch you in a bold face lie in which you told me your friend claimed his target got in 200 ps2s at launch and one of the ign links proved u wrong showing that the target by them got in 4 units . Now i can believe a 10-20 unit diffrence in stores . But not a 196 unit diffrence.
You keep telling me each time we talk taht you own no sony systems . And that is fine i believe u . But I still believe your just trolling against ms as you repeat the same things over and over and over again