Every year there seems to be shortages of certain consoles, last year it was the 360 (just after launch so obviously), PSP and the DS Nintendogs bundle.
This year with the exception of the Wii (obviously), the hard to get consoles are the pink special editions. Pink PS2, Pink PSP, Pink DS Lite.
In particluar the DS is in very short supply, this sort of creeped up on me but if you look online nowhere has got any DS's in stock of any colour.
My mate tried to get his daughter a pink one last week and ended up searching all over the place for one of any colour before finally finding a white one. Ebay prices are going for over £160 for the pink one. Good job I got my daughter a pink one from Game a month or so ago then!
I just find it funny that console manufacturers want their machines to be successful and sell lots of units, but in the most important month of the year for sales they cannot keep their machines in stock. Therfore probably lose out on potential machine sales (and therefore future game sales).
This year with the exception of the Wii (obviously), the hard to get consoles are the pink special editions. Pink PS2, Pink PSP, Pink DS Lite.
In particluar the DS is in very short supply, this sort of creeped up on me but if you look online nowhere has got any DS's in stock of any colour.
My mate tried to get his daughter a pink one last week and ended up searching all over the place for one of any colour before finally finding a white one. Ebay prices are going for over £160 for the pink one. Good job I got my daughter a pink one from Game a month or so ago then!
I just find it funny that console manufacturers want their machines to be successful and sell lots of units, but in the most important month of the year for sales they cannot keep their machines in stock. Therfore probably lose out on potential machine sales (and therefore future game sales).
