PS3 preorders tomorrow

[hairlesswookiee]

lol... im glad i dont care about the PS3 because i'd seriously cause major damage to an EB store if i found out they were holding some back for their "friends" that stopped me from getting one.

 

[Mookeylama]

Yeah, me and Danny both got one. At the eb games we were at, the guy in front of us had three people with him who he was paying $100.00 each to preorder one for him. A reporter also showed up and talked to the guy and he said that he was going to be getting nine total to resell.

now that **** is totally wrong. there should be some sorta rules like only 1 per household not person, or if the guy is being totally blatant about it, like talking to a freakin reporter about paying friends to be there, then the store should limit them to 1. if i'd seen that crap, or what Tom went thru w/ employee hoarding, i'd've left and came back w/ a gun.

 

[SSC_Nerd]

Form what I've heard, the Gamestop people CAN deny you a preorder if they find out you're just doing a 180 and selling it. Someone shoulda just spoke up about it and spilled the beans.

I don't know how the hell they'd do it, but there is also a rumor that gamestop will be literally investigating people to find out if they're just going to sell it. I don't know HOW they pull off something like this, but a lot of people have been saying they actually do have the power to do this. Crazy rumor, yes, but interesting nonetheless.

 

[DannieDarKo]

Someone shoulda just spoke up about it and spilled the beans.

Definetly not me, I'm not a snitch. Secondly it may of resorted into a fist fight and I can't afford to break probation.

 

[tomandshell]

now that **** is totally wrong. there should be some sorta rules like only 1 per household not person, or if the guy is being totally blatant about it, like talking to a freakin reporter about paying friends to be there, then the store should limit them to 1. if i'd seen that crap, or what Tom went thru w/ employee hoarding, i'd've left and came back w/ a gun.

There was actually a rule that only one could be reserved per household, but that probably got filed away along with the rule that only two per store could be sold to employees. That explains why five were already spoken for when the doors opened at 10 AM. My wife was a good sport, though...

And the other store was even more blatant about it. There was a line of thirty people standing there, and they wouldn't sell to them. The employees were seen getting on the phone and calling other people to come down to the store. People were pulling up in their cars, walking right past the line of people who had been there all morning, and heading straight to the register to put down their deposit. People in the line were not happy about going home empty handed.

 

[SSC_Nerd]

And the other store was even more blatant about it. There was a line of thirty people standing there, and they wouldn't sell to them. The employees were seen getting on the phone and calling other people to come down to the store. People were pulling up in their cars, walking right past the line of people who had been there all morning, and heading straight to the register to put down their deposit. People in the line were not happy about going home empty handed.

Man... you have told two awful PS3 preorder stories. I usually keep my cool about most things, but since this has been something I've been waiting for for so long, and the fact that I was BLATANTLY cheated out of it right in front of my eyes, I might make an excpetion to lose my cool.:emperor :emperor

Geez, I consider myself one of the extremely lucky ones now.

 

[Bannister]

Definetly not me, I'm not a snitch. Secondly it may of resorted into a fist fight and I can't afford to break probation.

What's even funnier is that that isn't a joke.

 

[kain4521]

Wii goes up for pre order tomorrow at gamestop.:chew

 

[tomandshell]

I'll have to stop by. I'm a really big fan of Gamestop and would love to give them some of my hard earned money.

 

[Bannister]

I'll have to stop by. I'm a really big fan of Gamestop and would love to give them some of my hard earned money.

 

[kain4521]

Don't hurt them too bad Tom. I am trying to con my wife into getting this on order for me but it just aint working out that way. Looks like I will have to try Target on the 19th.

 

[SSC_Nerd]

You may not have TOO much to worry about getting this on launch day. Thankfully, there are boatloads more of the Wii out on launch day than there will be the PS3. PS3 has about 400,000 on lauch, while the Wii will have close to 1,000,000 they say.

 

[occulum]

just dropped by my local EBGames and the guy there said they had 16 PS3's for presale that morning. The line had been there since 7am and the people had already handed numbers out to themselves when the employees got there to start doing to sales.

 

[Darth Madden]

Form what I've heard, the Gamestop people CAN deny you a preorder if they find out you're just doing a 180 and selling it. Someone shoulda just spoke up about it and spilled the beans.

I don't know how the hell they'd do it, but there is also a rumor that gamestop will be literally investigating people to find out if they're just going to sell it. I don't know HOW they pull off something like this, but a lot of people have been saying they actually do have the power to do this. Crazy rumor, yes, but interesting nonetheless.

Yeah, and Microsoft will send you $1000 if you forward their email to 100 people. There is no way they can track what people do with them after they walk out the door... Its just a scare tactic.

 

[Bannister]

just dropped by my local EBGames and the guy there said they had 16 PS3's for presale that morning. The line had been there since 7am and the people had already handed numbers out to themselves when the employees got there to start doing to sales.

Talk about being organized.

 

[Asura]

I'll have to stop by. I'm a really big fan of Gamestop and would love to give them some of my hard earned money.

HAHA



I heard on another (reliable) forum the Wii is going to have a shortage as well, just to create hype and generate sale interest. Trying to take the spot light from Sony are they?

 

[tomandshell]

I had better get there early before someone else gets their hands on my Wii...




Actually, I don't think I want to get a Wii, that was just fun to say. Since it's not hi-def, it's just not going to hold up to the other two consoles in my mind. I think there will be a huge number of people who will find this to be a perfect match for their interests, budget, and TV setup. I'm just not quite one of them.

 

[kain4521]

The only reason I want a Wii is to play the old Nintendo and Sega games I have a 360 for everything else.

 

[occulum]

so the Wii is actually supposed to be of inferior resolution as opposed to the other 2?
I know it doesnt play the HD/BlueRay DVDs, but I thought the games were up to par quality wise with the others. Is that not so?

 

[tomandshell]

so the Wii is actually supposed to be of inferior resolution as opposed to the other 2?
I know it doesnt play the HD/BlueRay DVDs, but I thought the games were up to par quality wise with the others. Is that not so?

I saw an interview with one of the talking heads at Nintendo, and when asked how they were able to keep the price down on the Wii, the main two things he pointed to were the fact that it doesn't play any kind of DVD, since he figured that everybody already has four or five DVD players in the house already, and the fact that the system doesn't output an HD signal. He basically said that the majority of families don't have HD setups and that the average customer won't miss it. They are obviously not shooting this thing towards the media savvy technologically minded rich young men who are up until 4 AM playing Halo on their 60" plasma screens. The question is--are there more people like that, or more kids wanting to play video games on their 27" standard definition TV in the family room? I think that the Wii will do very well selling to the common man and average family. For a lot of people, $250 is still a lot of money for a game system--forget about $600.

Nintendo is taking a gamble by putting out a console that is less powerful than the Xbox 360, which is already on the market. The PlayStation 3 will also far surpass it in rendering games in high-resolution, realistic graphics.

"We have a different paradigm for what turns on the consumer," Fils-Aime said. "If you want power, frankly, you're going to go somewhere else."

In particular, the Wii won't render high-definition video output. It's limited to a resolution slightly higher than that of standard TV. Nintendo is betting that HDTVs are still not common enough to be a major factor for people buying a game console.

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After getting used to high def games and movies on the Xbox 360 and PS3, the Wii is just going to look crummy to me.