PS3 purchases getting ugly...
 

I happened to stop by Best Buy yesterday and I noticed people camping outside, in bitter cold, windy weather no less, and guess what they were waiting to purchase? Yep, a PS3. I kind of laughed that there need could be so urgent and that they could be so greedy.

But then while browsing Livejournal I found out that it wasn't very funny...

Yeah, I heard about an incident in Wisconsin where a Wal-Mart set out ten chairs, and whoever could sit in one, among a crowd of 50 people, would get tickets to purchase their PS3. As the race for the chairs commenced, some guy ran head-first into a pole and was carried to a hospital.

My initial reaction was uncontrollable laughter, but then thought it was sad that the injury was so bad, that Wal-Mart was keeping in touch with the guy. But then I laughed again when I thought about how this guy could want a PS3 so bad. Of all systems - the PS3. So I just laughed at his double-stupidity.

Yeah, the PS3 release is getting quite out of hand. It's one thing to read about it a bit on the 'Net, but it's another thing when you actually see it on your local evening news. :o

In a year the price will be cut in half, you'll have WAY more games (including the the new TMNT movie game) and there will be WAY more Blu-Ray discs available...I have no problem with delayed gratification...wish I had waited to get my PS2, they are so cheap now BTW...

Yea, Im not too sure the price will be cut in half within the year...maybe a slight drop but not hundreds of dollars...

And yea, ima wait to get the ps3 (and wii for that matter), once the systems have been out for a bit, major bugs taken care, more games, and hopefully a bit of a cheaper price, esp. in the case of the ps,,,

You can keep dreaming if you think the PS3 is going to be half the price it is now in a year.

Edit: Penny-Arcade sures knows how to tell it like it is
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/17

:lol: You have got to love Penny-Archade :lol:

Honestly, the people who just want to get their claws into a consel...'tis sickening. I'm most likely going to get a PS3, but not because I want to. I'm more than happy with my PS2, but eventually you'll be forced to buy the goddamn thing since all the latest games that you will be dying to get will only be on the PS3. Bah. What I find funny is that everyone wants the thing now, yet you can get it next year when they have some half-yearly sales or Christmas discounts at EB games or something...

I lived though the launch, here is my tale.

First of all I was sick of the thing by the time I got to it because I had 5 billion people hawking the warehouse I work in looking for the fabled PS3 shipment that they think was coming. Idiots man, they stood outside our warehouse for 4 hours trying to get one until we had security remove them.

Anyways I'm on my break in the parking lot and this wise ass comes up behind me and grabs my shoulder. "Got any PS3's left?" he asks. I said "No, I'm on my break, and don't touch me" Then I start to walk away. He grabbed my shoulder really hard again and yelled "Your rude you know that" So I turned around and clocked him. He stumbled back a bit*Which made me feel like maybe I'm not as weak as I think I am* and I turned around and walked back into the store.

I didn't see him or hear any complaints. If he had said anything I would just tell them I felt threatened, which I didn't cause I know I could have kicked his ass*He was skinnier then me, and I'm damn skinny*. But I would have said that anyways to get myself out of trouble haha I wasn't clocked out when I did it so technically I could have been fired <_<

Thankfully that didn't happen though.

Granted, I wasn't there, didn't see the dude, and wasn't feeling what you were feeling...But that seems like a little overkill, doesn't it? The guy could sue you on Judge Judy and you wouldn't have a chance in Hell, boy.

I don't care, I told him not to touch me and he grabbed me, and quite hardly, he also yelled at me. So he got what was coming to him. Simple thing, I warned him.

Nice, spit for the kill! I wish I could punch somebody, I never have and I really want to. Maybe I'll just get my girlfriend...






Kidding, kidding.

It seemed odd to me too that you would punch a guy for only being a jerk. You have more balls than I do, I would just have swore at him or at the most pushed him away. But then again it makes for a much better story your way.

I haven't punched someone in 5 or 6 years. Or even thrown one at someone for that matter. I was just already in a bad mood.

That is just sad. All of those people JUST for a fricking Play Station 3. And they wouldn't leave until you had to get out the security. The poor, pitiful souls...

:o Woah! It's a good thing you weren't fired. I'm sure many people on here would have done what you did to that guy, Spit. Besides, that what you get for expecting someone to drop a PS3 into your lap :P You did well, Spitfire of the Technodrome. You did well :)

Good thing I've got all those must-have games on the 360....

True, ture... but I'm not only refuring to now, but in the future. In one or two years. Let's say a fabulous game titled "The Fantastic Adventures of Mr. Stables" comes out (Yeah, crappy title, but you get my point). It's on every platform imaginable. The 360, Wii, DS, PS3...oh, wait a minute, it's not avalible for the PS2. All I'm saying is that the people who are more than happy with their old stations (PS2, X-Box, Game Cube, GBA...) will have to sell or trade in their stuff sooner or later because the companies won't be making games for the older generation of gaming platforms. Any gamer who has seen the birth of a new generation of gaming platforms should know that, myself included.

And I shouldn't have said "you" in my previous post. I should have said "I" instead. Bah, me and the wonders of jumping between internet conversations and assignments, no? :roll: *slaps herself*

Exactly. If the X-box 360 taught anyone anything, its to wait a little while when more people have it to see if anything is wrong with it. I mean, what if, in a couple weeks, someone finds out there's a wiring problem, and the machines explode or something? You have to send it to be repared or get a new one anyway.

But seriously, that and the TMX Elmo... they sold out, they go for several times their value on E-bay (An Elmo toy actually fetched a cool mil online), and people get shot trying to get it.

I wonder how long before that Anti-video game crusader wuzzizname can blow this out of proportion.

I really don't have much interest in the PS3. When I get the money for a next gen system it will probably end up being X-Box 360 or Wii. Maybe a 360 because I'm currently a Gamecube owner and we always seem to get screwed on third party games. I hope the Wii gets more 3rd part support.

i want metal gear solid 4 nuff said. If it's on ps3, it would be difficult since I heard rumors metal gear solid 4 was coming to xbox 360 also but Konami rahter make it for the ps3 no one has.

Oh also I heard Microsoft is putting in a smaller cpu. Apprently the 360 will be the same but the new chip is supposely supposed to sotp the overheating, etc. It would probably be much much cooler then.

I am going to get a 360 after I get a wii. I plan to get one summer 07 before halo 3 comes out in the fall of 2007.

So I just read something about Sony's online service that's quite interesting. As everyone knows, it's free for consumers, but someone has to be paying for it. Apparently that someone is third-party developers. Everytime someone downloads a demo of a game, the third-party who made it has to pay a service charge. Another scum bag move, and all this is going to do is guarantee that there'll be few to no third-party demo's online for the PS3.

Like I've said before; you get what you pay for with online service. Microsoft's is $50 a year, but you're getting the best service possible. I predict as the months roll on, you'll see more and more problems with the PS3's online service.

Sony, L.O.L. :lol: