Earthquake triggered a tsunami in Japan not only on the Japanese mainland had a disastrous blow to the impact of the video game market is also great.
On the day of the earthquake in Japan, the domestic price of PS3 hdd console in history has just dropped to the lowest bit, but not more than half a day during the good times, things change dramatically. PS3 hdd down to the end point of fact, when the price of PS3 hdd Xiaobian have felt bound to rebound, but the thought of coming so fast.
Throughout the recent PS3 market, although prices have dropped after the Spring Festival, but not price-cutting in nature. First, the domestic PS3 sales slump, although cheap, but the market share has become saturated, coupled with intense market competition, wholesale business is not good to do. So some people stand up and take the lead in price, which led directly to wholesalers, not make a profit on the PSP, or even lose money selling the machine. In order to prevent continued to lose money, many distributors begin to reduce the amount of purchase, or even stop the purchase, some wholesalers and even joked: why not shipped, because the machine has already begun in transit to a loss. For these reasons a direct result of tightening supply of the host PS3.
However, just at this juncture, Japan earthquake, the vision is very shrewd businessmen, they know when the price increases, when the price cuts. So just after the earthquake, like wholesalers received notice of the same uniform, have stopped the PS3 console and shipping offer, you can see only two cases, either a price is not available, or is Cargo priceless.
Business is not available, prices will naturally rise, it is the law of the fixed iron. So from the beginning of the weekend, PSP, prices began to rise, even with some Japanese hosts (such as 3DS) have begun to price increases, PS3 price begins to shake (remember the news articles said that there are now more than ten million units of PS3 is floating at sea the … …).
Price increases are inevitable, Japan’s earthquake and tsunami is an opportunity, but suddenly it some more, and today, the supplier was at the PSP is still difficult to obtain purchase, because we are waiting to see how this price could rise to more high, Xiao Bian get PSP and 3DS get news is prices have risen by nearly two hundred dollars, and that the pace of price increases has not stopped.
The impact of the tsunami is not just limited to video game console, as the flash power output of grain, a subsidiary of its joint product prices are rising, including: memory stick, flash memory cards, memory, and many need to use …… Flash Particle electronic products (including the current iPhone and incredible fire iPad). Zhongguancun electronics market flash memory cards currently offer has started to rise, some manufacturers have even stopped supplying even the assembly of the price of memory stick all the way rosy.
Want to friend you had better seize the time of purchase, and in accordance with the historical experience, prices will not decline in the short term.
