Oh no! GameStop won’t be able to fill PS3 preorders

A few weeks ago GameStop said that they were taking orders for PS3s but each store would only take 8 preorders because that the amount they were thought to get. Unfortunately, Sony didn’t build as many units as Nintendo did with the Wii (around some 4 mil) and it won’t be able to fill that 8 per GameStop store. GameStop thinks that they are going to get a lot less than 8. In fact, no GameStop employee is allowed to purchase a PS3 from GameStop until the second shipment of PS3s come in (which means if an employee has preordered one already, he has to give it up to a customer).

For the poor, poor people that won’t be getting a PS3 and preordered one but there wasn’t enough, GameStop says that those people (employees too) will get a free used game or DVD that is less than or equal to $19.99 when the system comes in and they buy it.

According to GameStop, they are going to start contacting customers who preordered a PS3 to update them on the status of their reservation tomorrow.