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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: juslight on February 21, 2002, 07:05:54 AM

Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: juslight on February 21, 2002, 07:05:54 AM: A friend of mine just bought a PS2 with his tax return check. He needed a memory card so we went to my favorite game store to purchase one, but there were none to be found. The guy at the store said that Sony was behind in production and that nobody had any memory cards. I thought this was a little strange so we left to try and get one somewhere else....

NOBODY HAD ANYTHING!!!!

Target, Wallmart, K-Mart, Blockbuster, Rhino..... We went to all of these places and found nothing!!!

We finaly found a Nyco card at a less known rental store in a strip-mall.

Does anyone know what is going on with Sony???? Why are they so behind???
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: GmanJoe on February 21, 2002, 08:09:40 AM: Sold out everywhere due to demand? I don\'t know. I\'ve been hearing the same story since Christmas.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: project86 on February 21, 2002, 08:37:07 AM: got off the phone with my friend down at EB and he says they got plenty. Don\'t know about any slow production news. I\'ll keep my ear to the grownd though.;)
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: Heretic on February 21, 2002, 08:58:08 AM: Late last year Sony decided to no longer give third-parties license to make PS2 memory cards, even though the official card vastly outsells the off brands.

???????

Maybe an underhanded attempt to create demand for the hard drive? Something\'s fishy...
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: Troglodyte on February 21, 2002, 09:04:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Heretic
Late last year Sony decided to no longer give third-parties license to make PS2 memory cards, even though the official card vastly outsells the off brands.

???????

Maybe an underhanded attempt to create demand for the hard drive? Something\'s fishy...

Maybe it was because 3rd parties were making crappy memory cards, and Sony didn\'t want anything out that could crap up the console war.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: VideoMan on February 21, 2002, 09:05:57 AM: At the store I work at we have like 100. No short supply there......Gamecubes on the other hand......
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: project86 on February 21, 2002, 10:00:31 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Troglodyte

Maybe it was because 3rd parties were making crappy memory cards, and Sony didn\'t want anything out that could crap up the console war.

There is nothing worse than playing a game for hours and hours only to find that the p.o.s. of an off brand memory card just went on the fritz and you loose all your saved data! I buy only Sony stuff just to be safe.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: IronFist on February 21, 2002, 10:33:43 AM: Last I heard Sony was 3 months behind in memory card production. But that was way back in early January. You would think they would have fixed the problem by now.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: Troglodyte on February 21, 2002, 10:38:25 AM: Quote
Originally posted by IronFist
Last I heard Sony was 3 months behind in memory card production. But that was way back in early January. You would think they would have fixed the problem by now.

Early January I hopped in to my local Circuit City and POW! There were 20 or so memory cards. Never had a problem here in Georgia.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: fastson on February 21, 2002, 10:39:25 AM: Remember that they sold 5million consoles under the christmas period.

Im glad I got that 2nd Memorycard. :)
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: Heretic on February 21, 2002, 11:03:54 AM: Quote
Originally posted by fastson
Remember that they sold 5million consoles under the christmas period.

Makes a lot more sense than my whack idea :o
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: slick on February 21, 2002, 01:07:17 PM: i remember a few weeks ago i when i bought tekken tag, the guy at software etc. was looking up how much store credit i can get for 007 AUF, and he was shocked to see that they were giving $35 store credit for used 8mb sony ps2 mem cards, they were desperate i guess, they are giving $35 for gta3 right now.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: Chrono on February 21, 2002, 02:34:44 PM: My friend had the same problem.. he managed to find one at Circuit City.. you may have to order one online.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: PSX_J on February 21, 2002, 02:51:36 PM: Hmm, well I talked to a clerk at babbages not to long ago and he said that Sony seemed to be speeding up quite well on production and that there shouldn\'t be any shortages or anything like that.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: SwifDi on February 21, 2002, 04:46:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by project86

There is nothing worse than playing a game for hours and hours only to find that the p.o.s. of an off brand memory card just went on the fritz and you loose all your saved data! I buy only Sony stuff just to be safe.

I know it\'s better to be safe than sorry... but that\'s just a waste of money that could be put to buy games. I have used nothing but third-party stuff since the early days of my Genesis, to my 64, now with my PS2 probably saved over a hundred dollars because of it, and have never encountered a single problem.
Title: SONY - Slow down in production????
Post by: project86 on February 22, 2002, 03:39:41 AM: I only have the opinion that I do because of what happened to me when I was playing FF7. I got about 65 hours into the game and the third party memory card pooped out on me! I\'ve bought only Sony stuff since then. (And the same goes for all the other systems I have)

This is not a waste of money to me, thought your point is well taken. Some people have problems and some don\'t with the equipment they own. I just happen to be one of the unlucky ones.

I trust Sony peripherals and equipment. That’s all the reason I need to spend a couple bucks more.
:)