I'm curious as to why everyone thinks this means that ALL demos will cost money. Only the OXM demos will cost money; there will still be free demos released on market place. Relax, put away your torches and pitchforks, drink some tea...
My most recent shift at one of the local Gamestops (just a couple days ago, really) saw our PS3 kiosk freeze up 3-4 times at completely random intervals. We eventually decided to just turn the system off, since the last time it froze, we couldn't actually hard-reset the machine; it kept freezing again at the menu screen, which for some reason turned pink.
Now, I will admit that the space is pretty cramped, but the kiosk had fans (very loud fans), not to mention the massive 200mm fan in the system itself. Call me crazy, but I think opting for the internal power supply might have been a bad idea.
Now, this freezing several times and us shutting off the kiosk thing happens regularly; any shift I work that it doesn't happen is special to me. During my entire term of employment, I've seen the 360 kiosk have a total of one error (a disc read error) which was remedied by pushing the reset button on the OUTSIDE (revolutionary!) of the plastic case. There's really no way to put it besides 'the PS3 has a problem.'
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I'm curious as to why everyone thinks this means that ALL demos will cost money. Only the OXM demos will cost money; there will still be free demos released on market place. Relax, put away your torches and pitchforks, drink some tea...
My most recent shift at one of the local Gamestops (just a couple days ago, really) saw our PS3 kiosk freeze up 3-4 times at completely random intervals. We eventually decided to just turn the system off, since the last time it froze, we couldn't actually hard-reset the machine; it kept freezing again at the menu screen, which for some reason turned pink. Now, I will admit that the space is pretty cramped, but the kiosk had fans (very loud fans), not to mention the massive 200mm fan in the system itself. Call me crazy, but I think opting for the internal power supply might have been a bad idea. Now, this freezing several times and us shutting off the kiosk thing happens regularly; any shift I work that it doesn't happen is special to me. During my entire term of employment, I've seen the 360 kiosk have a total of one error (a disc read error) which was remedied by pushing the reset button on the OUTSIDE (revolutionary!) of the plastic case. There's really no way to put it besides 'the PS3 has a problem.'