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PS3 Pre-Orders Came and Went
Warlock7 writes "Well, it's official. The pre-orders have begun ... and mostly ended. I just got mine ordered and four hours later there are already units on eBay. Some acutions have already gone north of $1000 USD. The guys at
EBGames told me that the most units going to any one store was 36 and that there were an average of 8 units being distributed to each store. The one I went to reported that they were going to be getting a total of 16 units. They waited this long to take pre-orders because they wanted to be sure that they weren't going to get burned like they did for the XBox 360 launch." The reports from across the internets are varied, with long lines netting nothing for some, and others reaping the sweet rewards.
Now there's a gamer -- standing in line at GameStop from 6:30 to 9 qualifies as "camping out".
In the guys defense, that's probably about how long the battery in his PSP was good for.
Yeah but don't you want to buy one to cook up some tasty low-fat Sony brand burgers!
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Why not send the email out DAYS ahead of time?
Oh well, I was just going to use the EBAY profits to fund my Wii.
I paid $500 for my gmail invite, but it was worth it, because now I have 50 of them that I can sell to other people. I call it my retirement fund.
We are pleased that so many of you have volunteered your hard-earned time and money to be the first to work out all the kinks in this first generation of PlaysDISK READ ERROR
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
eBay started cancelling the auctions, no idea why.
At least one of the units was over $1300. There are now more that are at $1000 and going up...
"Danger: Info Inflow Overload, Knowledge Blackhole Imminent!"
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Camping in the same spot for nearly 3 hours... he's probably just afk.
Behold the glorious bragging rights
"After hearing chatter about PS3 pre-orders at GameStop in #ps2 on efnet, I checked your site in order to see if it was true. I figured since it was my night off, I might as well waste it camping out for a few hours...Once I got to my nearest Gamestop, I saw there was only one guy camping...He had gotten there at 5 a.m."
Now there's a gamer -- standing in line at GameStop from 6:30 to 9 qualifies as "camping out".
Too right! after all clearly the guy going there at 5am was a camper, but what the commenter left out was that *he* was a loot ninja just waiting to strike :D.
Slashdots games section is next only to Gamefaqs when it comes to trollish/childish behaviour. And now since I'm adding nothing to this discussion, I'll leave to start my own boycott.
Actually, "camp out" means to "camp" "outdoors".
The proper term to use for standing in line three hours is "standing in line."
Not anymore it's not!
Big sell outs expected in stores across the country!
Dude, Sony already sold out, big-time. I remember when they were an unsigned console manufacturer, setting up at dive bars for 20 people to play a few games for a quarter each. Yeah, PlayStation (back then, that's all it was; there was no PSP or PS2 or PS3) was primitive and unpolished by their standards of today, but you could tell there was passion behind it. It used to be about the gaming, man, it used to be about the gaming. Now, it's all corporate and sterile and 'how-can-we-leverage-this-product-to-increase-plat form-dominance' bundled Blu-Ray and stuff. They've changed, man. They've changed.
geek. lawyer.