Why Sony is going to hell

[Dave]

well, this thread went to the trashcan.

Quick update on Sony. Their stock took a big dump today b/c there is a debate over them being able to get some parts for the PS3(Blu-ray amongst them) and therefore causing a bottleneck in sales. One of their big buyers cut its estimate in half of the PS3s that they would purchase.
"How does this affect us?" This means it will take even longer for Sony to sell enough units to recoop the development put into the PS3, and therefore it will be a longer time before prices will start to drop.

...or they are limiting supply to increase demand, increase the customers percieved value of it, that will extend into when there is a full supply, exactly like what happened with the PS2 (and what MS did with the Xbox 360)

a good point, and not something that I can validate, since I've never followed the development of any of the game systems and just saw this news on the web today and thought it would be pertinent to the thread. You have a good point, but I feel like a buyer cutting its estimates in half is significantly different from a supplier saying they are only going to build a small quantity. The former tells me that the buyer doesn't trust Sony to pony up the goods when the orders come in, or they think they'll get the shaft if something goes wrong, whereas the latter would totally support your statement. I'd agree with Kaan, if he's got brass balls and money to speculate, though I would wait for a bit before I started buying in, let the price drop a little more and make a larger return on investment.