Sony of America's Jack Tretton should stop talking. After the EGM interview fiasco where he promised $1,200 cash money dollar bill currency to anyone finding a PS3 on a store shelf (at the beginning of January, interview published near February), he should know that talking isn't his strong point right now. He was quoted as saying: "Our goal is to fill shelves across the United States. Our goal is not to have empty shelves, it's to have full shelves. If we have empty shelves, that's one less consumer who could have bought a PlayStation 3." We guess. There are some consumers who will see a plethora of a machine and say "well, there's a lot of these. Guess they aren't selling well. Must suck."Even so, there are places where the PS3 is still hard to come by, just like the Wii (but the Wii is a more widespread dearth, at least around Georgia). Getting the PS3 into all stores in decent quantities will be better than refusing to allocate units across the nation. A lot of people say the console wars will "truly begin" once all the new consoles are sitting on shelves in decent quantities, thanks to increased shipments and the like. Maybe so, maybe not. We're kind of anxious to see if Sony can still hit that six million unit mark by March. If so, we'll have to tip our hat because that's pretty impressive. Wouldn't you agree?
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