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PS3 frenzy
« on: November 16, 2006, 07:38:32 pm »
Read these articles, they are short, and tell me if you think the PS3 has caused people to to some pretty odd things.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/launch/ps-fight-shuts-down-walmart-215309.php
http://www.wral.com/technology/10331292/detail.html
http://blog.meebo.com/?p=230
http://www.todaystmj4.com/_content/news/topstories/story_5432.asp
http://tv.dreamhosters.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ky_-abJJtc&eurl=

http://videogamejocks.com/blog/2006/11/16/ps3-line-violence/

This one is thrown in because it is funny. It compares the Wii and PS3 via Apple vs. Microsoft type add.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9136575504838642038

I could go on but these are enough to prove my point. The PS3 release is a mad burst of crazy money hungry people and way too dedicated gamers.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2006, 07:47:27 pm »
I'm an electronics lead department manager at Walmart. Let me tell you how much joy I had today telling kids they wouldn't get one. It honestly made my day.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2006, 08:22:42 pm »
Are you getting one?
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2006, 08:58:54 pm »
Neg, I've always been a Nintendo fan. I do have a Wii on reserve which I look forward to play Sunday.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2006, 09:01:57 pm »
I was to slow to reserve. I will stop by on sunday when the stores open. Maybe it'll be like when the nintendo DS (the original not the lite) came out. I had no issue getting one. Best Buy had 2 dozen in stock late in the day when I went. And the Target on the floor above it had a dozen or two on the shelves plus a whole other CRATE full of them in the back.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2006, 09:56:52 pm »
That UHaul thing was at the Target near me :P
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2006, 09:59:20 pm »
http://wii.clambert.org/

Target has so many Wii's coming there way. I wonder if they got a large number of PS3s too.
The one nearest me has 81 coming its way.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2006, 10:05:33 pm »
Target down the street from us got 4 copies of the PS3, I laughed. 50 consoles total for the PS3 shipped to my town of 30k+ people, I can't imagine if any muggings will take place tonight. I hope they get video footage if some do.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2006, 10:14:26 pm »
We'll see. I imagine the Police report in the Neighbors section of the newspaper in Miami will have a PS3 or two listed there. Though I wonder what value they will say its worth. The market value or the Ebay value.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2006, 11:42:53 am »
We had the local news team interviewing the idiots that waited in line for the last two days at our store and all of them said the value compared to eBay. I don't think one person showed up there that was actually gonna sit down and play it.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2006, 12:40:48 pm »
I wonder how many have been shot so far...I keep reading about people being shot.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2006, 12:44:25 pm »
This is causing too much violence and such. They should have wasted a bit more till they had more to ship. Like the Wii and xBox 360, both of which had plenty to ship.
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2006, 01:39:33 pm »
Quote from: Miamiandy on November 17, 2006, 12:44:25 pm
This is causing too much violence and such. They should have wasted a bit more till they had more to ship. Like the Wii and xBox 360, both of which had plenty to ship.
......... there was a shortage of xbox 360's at launch....
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2006, 02:02:21 pm »
deja vu
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Re: PS3 frenzy
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2006, 02:58:48 pm »
Yes, Sony originally announced like 2.2million+ were to be shipped to the united states. We ended up getting 400k copies and part of that bulk shipment went to Canada. So not only did we get stiffed again on the would have should have. That's that much longer most people will have to wait to get their hands on it. Last I heard Sony didn't plan on releasing another shipment out until after march of 07.
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