Major games retailers have told MCV that they are desperately scrapping for PS3 units, but are resigned to the fact that immense demand will outweigh their initial allocation.
At midnight last night, SCEE confirmed that a million consoles would be made available for retail across PAL territories Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Australasia.
Amazon's console and video games manager James Schall told MCV: "No matter what number Sony decide to give us out of that one million, it won't be enough to supply for the demand out there, which we already know to be absolutely phenomenal. We're in discussions with them and obviously trying to get as many as is humanly possible.
"Our aim is to ensure customers aren't queuing and fighting in the cold, waiting to get their hands on units that don't exist. We want to provide a hassle-free shopping experience for the massive number of customers we're expecting to buy the PS3 from Amazon. We aim to rival the smooth way in which we handled the Wii launch."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
did not they learn from US & japan?
everyone wanted one day 1, and by a month later, they were sitting on shelves and being returned, although europe won't have the advantage of there being a strong ebay demand since you can get one pretty much anywhere...
Americans got junk food stock up in their heads (no brain but a big mac) Japaneese will come around ;) EU is the land of the PS3.. and mather your bussinese kid your beloved console is out in 36 countries and nobody's buyin it..
And even in the U.S. it's not very popular. 5 million units in 14 months? Big deal. PS3 will probably trample over Microsoft's console within 4 or 5 months over in Europe.
It's important to remember that the really big titles aren't being released until up and around the European launch date. PS2 had a game drought, Xbox 360 had a game drought, and so does the PS3 at the moment.
out of interest does anyone know how many 360 were on sale at launch in comparison to ps3?
okay, well no wonder they we're sold out that's not a lot at all considering sony's ps3 launched with 250,000 and had 2million in circulation within 8 weeks. so to put it simply, the ps3 sold faster and more units then the 360 did when it launched.. i didn't know that... hmm.