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.Lightknight said: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.
They are awesome controllers though, Sony really hit the ball out of the park and got a home run there.WWmelb said: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.
Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.Drummodino said: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.
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)StormShaun said:Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.Drummodino said: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.
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.
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 said: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)StormShaun said:Agreed, it is quite annoying. Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.Drummodino said: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.
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.
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)
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.Drummodino said: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.
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?KevinHe92 said: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.
Huh... We have the same birthday... (Cool!)StormShaun said:Apparently Sony sent most of the stock to America for Black Friday.
They did release on the 29th ... my birthday.