Take this as completely anecdotal, but I'd be interested to hear everyone else's experience. At a local games shop there's a notice suggesting people pre-order their PS3 before March 29 23 [durr; thanks Hartley], when.. you know.
So how's business, I asked the bloke behind the counter? What sort of interest is there in the PS3 compared to the Xbox 360 and Wii?
Very low, he replied: with, what, six weeks to go before the launch, half their pre-allocation had not been taken up. (Of course you could go glass-half-full and say half had been.) That compared to pretty much all taken up for the Xbox 360 a year ago, and huge over-demand for the Wii before last Christmas.
So what sort of ratio of demand was there between the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360? Demand for the Wii was more than 10x greater than for the PS3, he said, and had been about 5x that of the Xbox. And he personally didn't think any of the PS3 launch games were worth the bother. "Sony has been promising this for two years and people have just got bored with it," he suggested.
So what's your experience? What do the people behind the counter at your local games shop (or even you, if you are the person behind the counter) say about demand for the PS3?
