Tretton assures a PS3 bloom come May

Here’s a bit of sunshine for all you PS3 fans out there. Sony will reportedly be able to push through with the shipment of 2 million more PS3 units to North America by the end of March. Their goal being to significantly ease the supply shortages by May.

“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 customer who could have bought a PlayStation 3,” says SCEA chief exec Jack Tretton. He also debunks the reports that there are stacks of unsold units across North American retails stores by saying that there are still, in fact, some areas still without stock even 3 months after the launch.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Dunham, PlayStation editor for IGN, says his piece on the matter:

The PS3’s biggest opponent right now is itself. It’s really just competing against its own PR… The PS3’s problem right now is there have been a lot of broken promises. It has a lot of things to overcome, but the brand name, the franchises and good exclusives… all should generate great interest.

Regardless of what other obstacles there may be, what’s important at this point is for Sony to hold up to their word this time, that they really deliver those stocks. Because really, there are still more fans waiting to get their hands on a PS3.

Here’s a bit of sunshine for all you PS3 fans out there. Sony will reportedly be able to push through with the shipment of 2 million more PS3 units to North America by the end of March. Their goal being to significantly ease the supply shortages by May.

“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 customer who could have bought a PlayStation 3,” says SCEA chief exec Jack Tretton. He also debunks the reports that there are stacks of unsold units across North American retails stores by saying that there are still, in fact, some areas still without stock even 3 months after the launch.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Dunham, PlayStation editor for IGN, says his piece on the matter:

The PS3’s biggest opponent right now is itself. It’s really just competing against its own PR… The PS3’s problem right now is there have been a lot of broken promises. It has a lot of things to overcome, but the brand name, the franchises and good exclusives… all should generate great interest.

Regardless of what other obstacles there may be, what’s important at this point is for Sony to hold up to their word this time, that they really deliver those stocks. Because really, there are still more fans waiting to get their hands on a PS3.