Just make enough, you cunts.

I’ve been reading over the weekend about people going mental to get their hands on a Playstation 3. There have been such queues and shenannigans that the Mayor of Boston has actually billed Sony to pay for the extra police needed when people rioted outside one shop at 5am.

Then there were stories about people queuing for ages to get themselves a Nintendo Wii. They camped out for days. I didn’t read of any riots but all the same having to live outdoors just to get the chance to buy a video games console is mental.

When you think about it it really shouldn’t be necessary. We’re talking about two massive companies here. Sony and Nintendo are not Mickey’s video game thing Ltd operating out of a converted garage in Inchicore.

Why couldn’t they just make more of them? I know there’s a certain element of hype about the whole thing and they want to create some kind of excitement but there’s enough excitement already without having to pit man against his fellow man in the race to be first in the door to buy one. It just doesn’t make sense to me. If you have created the hype already wouldn’t it be better to have loads of the fucking things to sell which means you make more money?

What good is it if you have queues of 500 people but only 200 of them can buy a PS3? It’s not like the labour costs are massive in the far east either. Just get a load of orphans and stick them in factory making the machines for 18 hours a day. Some might say it’s cruel and child labour is not right but it keeps them off the streets and lets them earn money they’d only steal from somewhere anyway.

Honestly, imagine how much more money they would have made this weekend if they’d had enough machines to go around. For all their hi-tech wizardry the nips don’t know too much about supply and demand, do they?

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One Response to “Just make enough, you cunts.”

  • Anonymous Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 10:58 am

    You can hardly compare Ninty to $ony.

    Nintendo had 4,000 units at their launch party in New York two days ago… more than enough to sell a Wii to every person who showed up for the launch.

    $ony on the other hand have played right into the hands of Ebay sellers and organised crime by releasing a ridiculously low amount of units with no sign of any more stock in the near future… at least not in time for Christmas. Nintendo will have 4 million to stores before year end.

    For shame $ony.

    Mick

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