Playstation 3

[tinybear]

Did you watch the news on TV? People have died trying to buy PS3!!

What's the big deal? What game/toy is worth risking and even losing your life?

Can anyone enlighten me please?

[Compugasm]

I saw a video on YouTube, and it looked like the LA Riots. What better way to get free press, than to have people rioting at stores. Brilliant marketing!!

[tinybear]

Any sane person who values his/her life would stay away from places which sell PS3.

[Jack]

People have died trying to buy PS3!!

It's a means to cull the herd. Create a situation that allows the morons to kill themselves off, thus preventing their "must have the latest fad at all costs" gene from entering the gene pool.

We'll see this sort of nonsense again in a month when the guns are drawn over the last Elmo on the shelf at ToysRUs.

[bishop]

i was thinking the same thing... visions of overweight, pasty white housewives with bad perms all lining up to stampede like a herd of wilderbeasts running through the river.

oh, the greatness of america..

[tinybear]

Sometimes, I weep for America.

[Compugasm]

Quote by: bishop ... visions of overweight, pasty white housewives with bad perms...

Holy stereotypes. Are they hook-nosed jews to boot?

[Jack]

I overheard a conversation Friday. A young guy was bragging that he and his buddies had scored 3 PS3's and already were selling them on eBay for 3 times what they're worth.

[bishop]

Quote by: Compugasm Holy stereotypes. Are they hook-nosed jews to boot?

nope, just wilderbeasts...

it's guaranteed that that's exactly what you'll see if you flip on the news on the morning of black friday..

Quote by: ish I overheard a conversation Friday. A young guy was bragging that he and his buddies had scored 3 PS3's and already were selling them on eBay for 3 times what they're worth.

it's just amazing that people would actually pay that much for one - rather than wait a week or two for the next shipments.. they're missing a couple chromosomes if you ask me.

[Compugasm]

Quote by: bishop nope, just wilderbeasts...

Ha, grazing for playstations.

[bishop]

that could make for a pretty funny cartoon methinks...

[RickSp]

Yawn, typical tiny bear. In one location in CT a couple of street thugs figured that they will rob those waiting in line to buy a PS3 very early on a Friday morning before they went on sale. One man resisted and was shot. His injuries are reported not to be life threatening.

Mass. Man Shot In CT While In PS3 Line

So, at least from what I have read, no one has yet died to buy a PS3. There have been reports of pushing and shoving and various thefts and assaults but reports of deaths appear to be false.

So weep all you want for whomever you want but reports that people are dying for video games are wildly exaggerated.

I just got back from waiting in line with my sons for almost 4 hours to buy a Wii today at Nintendo World in Manhattan. The only violence noted was to my aching feet.

[ericsp23]

The people who we have seen mobbing stores to get their hands on the PS3 are most likely not buying it for themselves or their kids, or even for Christmas presents. They are buying them to sell them on ebay. In the eyes of some people these things are a sure way to double or triple their money. Its like putting a pile of money on a shelf in the store and then opening up for business. That is why we've seen near riots over these things.

[GHook93]

Quote by: tinybear Did you watch the news on TV? People have died trying to buy PS3!! What's the big deal? What game/toy is worth risking and even losing your life? Can anyone enlighten me please?

They have a Best Buy across the street from my office. You would think people were in line to get Super Bowl (once the Bears make it there).

[bishop]

speaking of the wii opening day... take a gander at this retard:

Wii, Nemesis to PlayStation, Hits Market: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Spot checks at New York stores turned up only one, the Toys R Us in Times Square, with Wiis in stock. The store hosted a midnight launch event that drew a crowd of more than a thousand people for the sale of the very first Wii. The first buyer, Isaiah Triforce Johnson, had been waiting outside the store for more than a week. He wore a Nintendo Power Glove, a wearable controller that came out in 1989, while shaking hands with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Johnson said he had legally changed his name to include a reference to Nintendo's "Zelda" series of games.

legally changed his middle name to "triforce".. mom and dad must be proud - and no doubt, that's gotta be popular with the girls..

Sony had about 400,000 PlayStation 3s in North American stores on Friday. Nintendo has said it would have "five to ten" times as many Wiis available at launch, and will have shipped 4 million units by the end of the year. The Wii costs $250, including one game, half of what the cheaper PlayStation 3 model costs. The most common PlayStation 3 model costs $600, with no included game.

all three game consoles are losing money right now, but sony is way in the lead with losses..

ps3
production cost $800
retail: $500

xbox 360
production cost: $550
retail: $400

wii
production cost: $375
retail: $250


if sony sold all 400k of those, that's a tidy loss of $120,000,000....

if nintendo sold 5 times as many units, as it was predicting it would attempt to do, that's a loss of $250,000,000... now, i could be missing something, but that certainly seems like a whopping loss. one thing nintendo has going for it is the extreme profitability of its franchises, which are the only reason why someone would buy the wii imo.

[Scribbler1]

But something tells me there are a few warehouses somewhere filled to the rafters with PS3s and their doors will open up right after Thanksgiving.

Did Sony not realize there was a Christmas at the end of December? We DO have one every year, after all and all they needed to do was start making them earlier if production was an issue. The same goes for Cabbage Patch kids and Bite Me Elmo.
It's all a calculated plan to create a buzz before they start sending in the trucks, IMO. If anyone DOES die the blame will be 95% moron and 5% Sony.

[bishop]

heh.. i like that math.

speaking of christmas, i don't know about you, but i'm not in the spending spirit this year.. not that i don't want to give gifts, but there's nothing particulary interesting to get anyone (i'm having creativity block) and don't feel like blowing money on overpriced junk.

i just know i want a good humidifier for my apartment.. and maybe i can get some new t-shirts since i've been wearing the same ones for the past 5+ years now... ah... christmas present = vacation.

[Scribbler1]

T shirts? Big spender, eh?


Actually, that's about what I keep asking my Wife to get me for Christmas. I tell her the same thing every year, and it's true. I already have almost everything I want and what I want and DON'T have she can't afford. A 50" plasma TV for example.
I sure as hell don't want another computer.

My Mother-in-law always gives me boxer shorts, but she sneaks in a $50 or two inside the package. It's gotten to be something of a family joke.

[bishop]

heh.. that's pretty funny yo.

i'm in the same boat here - i have what i want. new tv, xbox 360 and a new computer.. short of a could geeky finance/economics books, i can't think of anything other than t-shirts..

if i was feeling frivilous, i'd think about picking up a wii, but right now, that seems like a pointless waste of money.

[Nacirema]

i'm wondering what impact sony's blu-ray format will have with a bunch the drives coming into peoples' homes on the ps3.