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PS3 Pre-Orders Came and Went

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quickest-stock-run-ever dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Its silly to get a console on release by HappySqurriel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally, I have only ever had a single problem with a Nintendo made product and that was I got a disc-read error on my launch Gamecube about 8 months after I bought it. My dealings with Nintendo's customer service about my broken Gamecube were so good that I have no worries about buying a Wii at launch; essentially, Nintendo just told me where to drop off the Gamecube and they shipped a refurbished Gamecube overnight to their Depot so I only had 1 day without my gamecube.

    The PS3, on the other hand, I would be worried about mainly because I have had bad experiences with Sony's customer service in the past and the PS3 has a first generation optical disc drive in it; my memories of first generation CD-RW and DVD/DVD-RW drives tells me that the most you can really expect from a drive like this is (about) 12 months of usage. I never want to have another system (like my PS2) where I own it for 13 months and have to go buy a brand new system (at full price) because of a disc-read error.

  2. Thank You, Beta Testers by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  3. Re:Heh... by iotashan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Camping in the same spot for nearly 3 hours... he's probably just afk.

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  4. How about some REAL discussion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I don't care if you're not going to buy the ps3. I also don't care if you're going to use the hypothetical money you set aside for a ps3, to now buy a Wii. I don't care that you feel so persecuted by one company that you take every chance you get to tell everyone about your Sony boycott.


    ...The mere mention of the word "rootkit" should not mean you automatically get modded "funny".

    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.

  5. Re:Heh... by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, "camp out" means to "camp" "outdoors".

    The proper term to use for standing in line three hours is "standing in line."