Poll: PS4/XBO available in your town.

[RicoADF]

So, that got me thinking. What is it like in other cities and states? I've called Best Buy, Walmart, Target, GameStop, Toys R Us, and a local gaming store I prefer to support. Here, most stores have XBOs but no PS4s at all. Also, once they get PS4s most stores even require you purchase a bundle, driving the cost up by $100+ for the ps4 by adding the $60 cost of two or even three games. GameStop has this awful bundle that gives you two games and an additional controller for $150 more than they'd cost if you bought them all seperately. Even Amazon is selling those consoles for hundreds more ($699 for a standard console at the time of this post, $840 for a Battlefield PS+ bundle). And yet still somehow they sell out within a few hours.

Strange, the store I got my PS4 from (pre-ordered way back in June) offered me a bundle which saved me $50 and added the playstation camera (so I saved an extra $70 I think?). Over here some stores have both sold out but the XBO can still be found, and even those that are sold out they say the next order will be in next week and that if you put your name down you will get one, but if you put your name down for PS4 you won't get one till February at best. I've asked at a few stores about their PS4 to XBO ratio and every one of them have said they have sold atleast 4 PS4's to each XBO, which going by how much easier it is to get a XBO it sounds about right.

The two JB's i've been into even sold their display/demo PS4's , and now just have the controllers there to touch... lol.

They are awesome controllers though, Sony really hit the ball out of the park and got a home run there.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Local store (Harrogate UK), Xbones £25 off already, stock on hand, PS4s strictly first come first serve, all gone the moment(s) they arrive. Ten arrived this morning, gone.

 

[BreakfastMan]

The closest store that sells games, AKA the local Kroegers, still has some of both sitting out in the open. There were 3 PS4's and 2 Xbone's in the electronic's section, last time I was there (which was last night). :\

 

[StormShaun]

If you watched the latest Zero Punctuation, you'll know that PS4s are quite difficult to acquire in Auatralia presently.

As far as I'm aware though Xboxes are still available.

Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.
They did release on the 29th ... my birthday.

And guess what, no PS4 for me.
I have to wait until the 18th of this Month.

Sony should have favored other countries, not just America.
This lowered my opinion of Sony and PlayStation, but not as much as Microsoft and the Xbox One.

 

[BrotherRool]

If you watched the latest Zero Punctuation, you'll know that PS4s are quite difficult to acquire in Auatralia presently.

As far as I'm aware though Xboxes are still available.

Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.
They did release on the 29th ... my birthday.

And guess what, no PS4 for me.
I have to wait until the 18th of this Month.

Sony should have favored other countries, not just America.
This lowered my opinion of Sony and PlayStation, but not as much as Microsoft and the Xbox One.

I'm sort of annoyed with it too and it's not great that they sacrificed one group of people's concerns for some business motivation (Although they were always going to leave exactly the same number of people lacking a console. If they'd done it the other way Americans would have been complaining. And the US does have roughly the same population as the entirety of Europe)

But I do think it was a really sensible business move by Sony. One of the truths of the world is that the US media is disproportionately influential. It led to a feeling last generation where the 360 always seemed to be 'winning' and considered the better console, because it was the most popular in the country where people make our gaming websites and video series (although I'm interested, was it the better selling console in Australia too? It was in the UK which I put down to our siamese-twin US culture dependency). You got stuff like the maker of Mad Catz controllers refusing to make custom controllers for the PS3, or a studio like Epic Games keeping one of their biggest franchises exclusive for ? reasons. People like Angry Joe never even bought a PS3.

So it makes business sense to pump consoles into the US whilst Sony have momentum, but that doesn't really comfort the people who don't get a console in return. (And admittedly I'm kind of lucky to be in the UK here, although I don't have a PS4 yet and probably won't before the years ended)

 

[Drummodino]

If you watched the latest Zero Punctuation, you'll know that PS4s are quite difficult to acquire in Auatralia presently.

As far as I'm aware though Xboxes are still available.

Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.
They did release on the 29th ... my birthday.

And guess what, no PS4 for me.
I have to wait until the 18th of this Month.

Sony should have favored other countries, not just America.
This lowered my opinion of Sony and PlayStation, but not as much as Microsoft and the Xbox One.

I'm sort of annoyed with it too and it's not great that they sacrificed one group of people's concerns for some business motivation (Although they were always going to leave exactly the same number of people lacking a console. If they'd done it the other way Americans would have been complaining. And the US does have roughly the same population as the entirety of Europe)

But I do think it was a really sensible business move by Sony. One of the truths of the world is that the US media is disproportionately influential. It led to a feeling last generation where the 360 always seemed to be 'winning' and considered the better console, because it was the most popular in the country where people make our gaming websites and video series (although I'm interested, was it the better selling console in Australia too? It was in the UK which I put down to our siamese-twin US culture dependency). You got stuff like the maker of Mad Catz controllers refusing to make custom controllers for the PS3, or a studio like Epic Games keeping one of their biggest franchises exclusive for ? reasons. People like Angry Joe never even bought a PS3.

So it makes business sense to pump consoles into the US whilst Sony have momentum, but that doesn't really comfort the people who don't get a console in return. (And admittedly I'm kind of lucky to be in the UK here, although I don't have a PS4 yet and probably won't before the years ended)

Well they always could have manufactured more. Because they have not shipped anywhere near enough to a lot of places. They may not have expected them to sell as well as they are, but even so I've heard some stores here received less than ten units. Which is quite frankly a joke.

 

[BrotherRool]

Well they always could have manufactured more. Because they have not shipped anywhere near enough to a lot of places. They may not have expected them to sell as well as they are, but even so I've heard some stores here received less than ten units. Which is quite frankly a joke.

I think you can fully trust that both Microsoft and Sony are manufacturing as many consoles as is physically possible right now. It's probably a pretty incredible piece of logistics management to be honest, if you think about it the PS4 didn't even have a finished design for it's casing less than 6 months ago and within that time they've been able to set up manufacturing plants (from scratch) that have pulled in high tech pieces from different suppliers all over the place to manufacture over 2 million consoles. That's something like 13,000 consoles a day. If you imagine them to have 9-5 days (whereas it's far more likely that both Sony and Microsoft have been exploiting uneducated workers from poor countries working ridiculous hours to pump out their consoles), that's them producing a brand new console every two seconds.

And then they've shipped them all over the world calculating the orders down to the tens of units. When you've only got 1,000,000 consoles to satisfy a population of 350,000,000 in a country so large it spans 4 time zones you have to break it down into single digit amounts for some shops. It's either that or just not sell consoles in large sections of the country.

And manufacturing tech is incredibly hard too. Microsoft tried to rush it last time and ended up making a console where 1 in 3 of them were faulty.

Both of them know that not only is it vital to get as many consoles into consumers as hands as quickly as possible. Both to prove to publishers it's worth making games for their systems and to try and avoid the Wii U problem and for PR. When Sony sold 2.1 million consoles before Microsoft had sold 2 million, all that really means is that Sony has managed to manufacture an extra 100,000 consoles that Microsoft couldn't.

 

[Zeh Don]

In Australia, PS4's are all gone. Extinct practically. None coming in until January/February, besides the few that are in to cover Christmas pre-orders. Maybe Costco will get some in.

Yeah, same where I am. I thought I read Australia was getting extra PS4's or something? Or did that just refer to the Christmas pre-order shipment you mentioned?

 

[VanQ]

My local EB Games told me there's a 4 month waiting list on PS4. Whereas they have several XBox Ones still in stock. As an append, I don't think there's a single person in the country that owns a WiiU yet, apparently the same store sent a bunch of WiiU stock back to Nintendo because they saw no point in holding an inventory of more than 10 even with Christmas upcoming.

 

[Eve Charm]

Stocking is the thing, MS is keeping better stock State side compared to sony. This week my store received 50 ones and about 10 ps4s. When the units are 500 or 400 a piece it's going to take time to move them after the people that went all out to find the console already have it.

 

[FPLOON]

According to my Gamestop Power Up Rewards e-mail, both the Xbox One and PS4 are now available for purchase again...

Granted, this info was sent through 2 e-mails, with more Xbox One's back in stock a day before PS4's... But, yeah, this might last less than a week, I guess...

Edit:

Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.
They did release on the 29th ... my birthday.

Huh... We have the same birthday... (Cool!)
And, yeah... I heard about that... (Didn't last long, though...)

 

[Shoggoth2588]

So today, my store began a sale of sorts. I mentioned in my last post that we had PS4's that we were planning to sell today...AND they were gone in minutes. As for Xbox Ones, my store is doing this awesome trick of making them multiply. This morning we had three and when I left we were up to 5 somehow...Wii U is also abundant.

 

[Remus]

My local Wal-Mart actually had a nice lady with cupcakes and a half dozen PS4s available for purchase. The cupcakes weren't bad, about 60%-40% cake to frosting ratio, but this being Sunday, in the midwest, there weren't exactly a lot of people in the store. We're a very church-going community after all, well, most of us. If I had $400, I'd gladly have grabbed one but I do not. I was only there for the $5 movie bin. Maybe Dec 26.

 

[BleedingPride]

I went to my local gamestop on friday to buy two games for my parents to give me for xmas, and i had a conversation about the new consoles with one of the guys who worked there. he said they had just gotten a brand new shipment of ps4s that morning and they were already ALL gone. but Xbox ones were all stocked plentiful for many days now. really shows how much sony is kicking ass at the opening of the console war, but time will tell i guess.

 

[Reaper195]

Living in New Zealand. As far as I've found, Xbone's are almost everywhere, but PS4's are completely sold out in the country. Cannot find one anywhere.

 

[lunavixen]

Well, I live in Australia and it's still possible to get both as far as i know (i've not exclusively asked yet, but i've seen nothing to say they're out of stock), though based on what others have posted i'd say my info may be incorrect.

 

[Branindain]

We got our PS4 because we asked at a store about 10 minutes after someone had cancelled their pre-order. Other than that we'd be waiting until March. There's plenty of Ones though, and if you're not in the know you would probably not even realise the WiiU exists.

Btw that's in Adelaide, Australia.

 

[an annoyed writer]

I've seen both at various stores in my area, though PS4s are predictably rarer than XBones. For example, at a local Target, I saw available Xbones outnumber available PS4s three to one.

 

[Revolutionary]

At the place I work were cleared out of PS4's until at least January. We have a shit-tonne of Xbox ones, were selling them at a good rate too.
It's not like the Xbox isn't selling it just seems to be both less popular and better supplied than the PS4.

 

[Hazy992]

Spotty at best. The only way I got a PS4 was by ringing the local GAME multiple times until they gave me a time when one might be available (it was a preorder that hadn't been claimed and was released back into general stock).

As for the Xbox One, I just happened to walk into a local Argos (UK retailer, sells all sorts of things) and they had one left (they'd had a shipment just that day).

I've noticed the Xbox One in stock at a few online retailers but they get snapped up quick. The PS4 is either not getting restocked or the stock is gone so quickly you barely have time to react.