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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.
GameStop now takes your $100, puts it in the bank, gets mad interest off of your cash and another 400,000 reservations, and you're left with nothing. Instead of just having customers pay when the product is physically here.... Sorry, but I want a product when I put cash down.
Future ruler of a small Asian-Pacific island
A sufficient bunch of suckers apparently was born for this.
So, $1000 eBay auctions for PS3 pre-orders. How do I describe this.
- it's a preorderm might not even happen
- they are willing to be the guinea pigs to try out the first (possibly faulty) batch of PS3
- how do you call something that's overpriced, and then overpriced again? But yea, that too.
So keep it going. If I ever buy a PS3, it'll be in an year or so when I'll get it for less than its current retail price, with rich game selection, stable performance (all major software and hardware bugs fixed), and if it flops I might even just save myself the $500 or so, and just play with my xbox.
People were paying almost that much for consoles in the previous generation, and inflation has marched on since then. A fool and his money are soon parted, regardless of how much money he might have - it's the amount of foolishness that determines how long it takes, not the amount of money.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Isn't it the point that he didnt really need to camp out at all?
This applies equally to the Wii, or any other shiny overhyped piece of kit (e.g. anything made by Apple). Never buy version 1.0 of anything
Okay. I've bought LOTS of Sony stuff. Thousands of dollars worth.
Trinitron Tube'd TV's
Disk- and Walk-men
Standalone home theatre speakers
nifty AV receivers
a Laptop
A Camcorder.
several pairs of headphones
countless Sony branded movies and albums, I'm sure.
And I'll never buy another Sony product again. Why?
Rootkits
Proprietary Media - MD, DAT, Memory Sticks, little odd writeable DVD's for their camcorders, PSP's oddball media, Beta, and now BluRay. I'm sick sick sick of the intentional fracturing of the market at the expense of the customer.
A Laptop installed with XP that _couldn't_ take SP2 due to a crappy memory controller.
Decisions for music players that just flat seemed STUPID (ATRAC?)
The fact they're betting the company on this one, expensive, item that has a cobbled together controller at a price I don't care to spend, forcing a media format I do not want.
Coupled with my moving away from physical media for entertainment purposes (I'll probable not get either competing format. I shifted from record and 8track to cassette, then CD's, from VHS to laserdisk to DVD.) I'm tired of re-buying the White Album, catch my drift?
Are you guys really falling all over yourselves for this company? Haven't they screwed you enough? (And by you, I mean the Customer)
Sony is an example of a machine that's gotten so large, it cannot move without standing on itself. I see no reason my money should reward it for its actions.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Heck, I saw some PS2 auctions go for more than $2000. I kicked myself for opening my system after I discovered that insanity.
The only real sport to be found through a computer nowadays is trolling message boards.
Which you seem to be pretty good at indeed. You injected the perfect amount of truth, in this case quite a bit, just with (mostly) wrong (well, IMO) conclusions. Ie. gaming isn't dead, it's just kinda sucky at the moment.
This "gen" won't be a writeoff either, even if what you say is somewhat true. The Wii will prove useful, even if it sucks for traditional games(not enough evidence at this point to say with 100% certainty), it will be fun for some things. There's some great titles in development for the 360 -- Gears of War(doesn't look like my cup of tea, but looks good nonetheless), uh... that one Action RPG, Bioshock, and etc. The PS3 is expensive indeed, but the price will come down, probably sooner rather than later, or as soon as it's not selling out -- they've already reduced the Japanese launch price, and there's some excellent games in development for it too.
Some growing pains perhaps, but not a total bomb for gaming.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Any why not? Its a division but its still eventually run by the same people. Personally I don't buy anything Sony now because no matter what division they are from they all seem to think that they can do no wrong. I'm sorry but I've seen to many comments from people at Sony for the PS3 that I thought were condecending and lost them my bussiness for ever. I will buy a Wii and Possiably an xbox360 but I will never own another Playstation.
Oh, stop it already. That story of the mom in line to pick up a brand-spanking new console for her kid is a hasty generalization at best.
Why don't you think of the hard working widower Dad that needs to work 12 hours a day to pay for his Son's cancer treatment and wants to make his son's life more cheerful by buying him a PS3 from eBay because that's the only place he can get his hands on one?
Won't someone think of the fallacy?
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
While you may think me deranged, I have a fair amount of faith in Nintendo as a company. So far this hasn't failed me. Nintendo has an excellent reliability track record, even taking into account DS lite problems. They almost always get it right the first time, and when they don't, they fix it. Also, I want to play Twilight Princess + a half dozen other release titles, and if my monkey instincts make me want to play them sooner, rather than later, well, what can I say?
Nintendo has an excellent reliability track record, even taking into account DS lite problems. They almost always get it right the first time, and when they don't, they fix it.
Whenever I heard "Nintendo" I think about how all of my friends had to constantly blow on their NES carts to get them to work.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
If you have a 360 I don't see the point of getting a PS3 as well since most of the port / franchise games will play almost identically on both. But if I had neither and assuming the PS3 provides the goods, then I wouldn't have any objection to paying $500-600 for something which is far more than just a games console.