Link: GamesFirst!

Looks like the launch day shortages of PS3’s that Sony announced are going to be worse than expected.

An internal Gamestop email expressed concern over how many PS3s their chain (which is the largest videogame retailer and includes Ebgames as well) would have available. A local store that received between 50 and 100 Xbox 360s at launch is expecting to get no more than 20 PS3s.

Hastings, a major retailer in the northwest, and based out of Texas, has opted not to reserve PS3s at all. Out of fairness, it should be noted that this is not merely a response to the rumored PS3 shortages. It is, in a big way, a reaction to Microsoft’s launch of the Xbox 360. For many retailers who realize they will sell out of these new systems on launch day regardless of whether or not they’v taken preorders, refusing to reserve systems is an obvious time and headache saver that eliminates the need for such concerted launch-day planning.

Emphasis mine, though it likely would have popped out like that for you even if I hadn’t bolded the text.

Insane. Let’s hope Nintendo does their launch better.