Sony: Slow PS3 start was down to stock

Sony bigwig Peter Dille has explained that the real reason for PS3’s slow start was poor levels of stock; the pump was "primed".

"The shortcoming was getting a lot of people whipped up and having them wait in-line and then only having a very, very limited amount of hardware supply globally, which meant that we had a kind of start and stop effect with our launch, which is hard to recover from," Dille told IGN. "It was a speed bump that we had to overcome and we overcame it.