Should Sony be liable?

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Earth-shatteringly sound logic from Gnarfflinger there. The only thing I could add to that might be "..and try waiting a few weeks until the rush dies down and the new shipments come out."

 

You sound surprised, Harbs. Check out the NHL 2006-07 thread in the Colloseum. I'm a Leafs fan, and occasionally I make sense to the resident Montreal Canadiens (longest, bitterest rivals).

I also assumed that you just had to have the BS3--er PS3, sorry, the day it came out. If you must do something like that, use your head a bit...

 

In New Zealand you'd just pre-order it and that means you wouldn't have to wait in a queue the night before and you're 100% likely to get one... unless the stores had a policy of having some just on the shelf and not allowing them to be pre-ordered (although I would picture that to simply be mad business practice). If that is the case then any liability is with the store and not Sony.

 

Saber makes a good point-- I can see exactly why Sony would want to make very few consoles, (ignoring the fact that it invokes a frenzy in gamers everywhere, as we all seem to want what we cannot procure). If Sony makes a set amount on advertising from the publishers that wish to make game(s) for them, and they are losing money for every console they sell, then it makes sense that Sony would want to sell as few units as possible, as they would make a far greater profit. This would buy them time in the long wait for the cost of producing PS3s to go down, after which Sony would no longer be losing money, and equalibrium would be restored, equating in far greater earnings than they would have procured otherwise. I stand fully behind HB in this case-- the only thing Sony is guilty of here is following a brilliant marketing strategy.

 

I steal ps3s and sell them on ebay