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Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console went on sale in the U.S. and three other countries Friday, leading to long lines and even violence. more

[CloverTAC]

Overhyped, overpriced garbage.
Just get a 360 and be done with it. You figure Sony would learn its lesson after a similar PS2 launch as well as some some of the problems that went on during last year's 360 launch.
Apparently not. Business as usual for Kutaragi and company.

[windowschmindows]

Gosh, I hope somebody got footage of this chaos, and is upping it to YouTube soon. I'd pay money to see the dude who ran into the pole at Wal-Mart...
Sorry, just my sadistic persona showing through...
Or better yet...the Wal-Mart greeter crappin' his pants as a mob of teenagers storm the front door!
Welcome to...uh...oh...my...

[wigby]

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You figure Sony would learn its lesson after a similar PS2 launch as well as some some of the problems that went on during last year's 360 launch.

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they did. 74 million ps2 units sold to date. why would they act any differently for this release?
http://spong.com/art...e%20been%20sold
you can blame the kids for wasting their time and money in lines outside of bestbuy but they're not the ones funding this. only the parents can afford to fork over $2000 via ebay for an early christmas gift because of their guilt for not being around or teaching children to be responsible consumers.

[MacTel]

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Just get a 360 and be done with it.

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It's not quite the same. I prefer the Wii anyway, but I'll be patient in waiting until after the holidays to grab one. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Grapho]

This is absurd. Not so much camping out for three days outside Circuit City to turn around a profit of $1400 dollars per unit re-sold, but the guy that actually spends $2000 dollars for a Toy. However sophisticated and advanced, it boils down to a toy. This happens because their is a market driven by people with more money then sense.

[solipsism]

Something about a bunch of gaming nerds rioting makes me smile. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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overpriced garbage.

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Certainly not. Sony is losing their ass on this product, with hopes to solidify Blu-ray as the next generation of optical media.


around $300 per unit.

[LarryV]

Is it just me, or does the concept of people forming disorderly, sometimes violent mobs over a gaming console make ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE? I'm sure many of these people don't take any action whatsoever regarding social problems, world turmoil, etc., but when the latest toy comes out - BAM! Waiting in line for hours, fighting over the first spot.
Seems pretty sad to me.

[Peter Cohen]

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you can blame the kids for wasting their time and money in lines outside of bestbuy but they're not the ones funding this. only the parents can afford to fork over $2000 via ebay for an early christmas gift because of their guilt for not being around or teaching children to be responsible consumers.

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Your comment is predicated on the assumption that parents are buying these for their kids, and I don't see a lot to support that. It seems like many of those waiting in lines are just there to make money reselling their units, and those that are buying them are early adopters with lots of disposable income who are simply unwilling or unable to wait in line to buy the machines themselves.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
We as humans most certainly have a violent nature, even against one another...More than any other species, I think. Anywho...I feel it is very sad that we can bring ourselves to such things. Oh well...Humans will be extent not before too long.

[horvatic]

CNN got footage of a race to 10 chairs. Those people that could get to those chairs got to buy the only 10 Playstation 3's they had.
I think the whole thing is non-sense. Especially those that are actually going to fork out $2500 for one of these. Yea there cool, but there way to expensive at $500 let alone $2500. Wait a year and you can probably pick one up for a reasonable price of $250.

[mikek836]

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. I think a corrollary to that should be that capitalism is the mother of ingenuity. I happen to agree that many of the people waiting in lines were simply looking to turn a quick profit, but here in Houston, I heard something that simultaneously made me shake my head in dismay and say, "hey, why didn't I think of that?" We have a fairly large number of "day laborers" in Houston (which is a nice euphemisim for illegal aliens). I was listening to the radio this morning when they were discussing the PS3 launch, and a caller called in to say that he paid 5 or 6 of them $200-300 each to stand in line (as it was a 1 per customer limit). So now, this guy has 6 PS3's, and from what I'm hearing, they are actually selling for closer to $3000 or more. It's funny really; Sony is losing hundreds per unit and the first in line are making thousands on the same unit. Capitalism is indeed the mother of ingenuity.
-Mike

[moose_n_squirrel]

Let's just not be prejudiced against early adopters. We need them. Without the upper class early adopters, nothing would reach the economy of scale that makes our favorite gadgets cheap for the rest of us. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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CNN got footage of a race to 10 chairs. Those people that could get to those chairs got to buy the only 10 Playstation 3's they had.

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That is just totally backwards and unfair. All of the fit day laborers can probably run a lot faster than the sedate gaming nerds can... /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[solipsism]

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They say that necessity is the mother of invention. I think a corrollary to that should be that capitalism is the mother of ingenuity. I happen to agree that many of the people waiting in lines were simply looking to turn a quick profit, but here in Houston, I heard something that simultaneously made me shake my head in dismay and say, "hey, why didn't I think of that?" We have a fairly large number of "day laborers" in Houston (which is a nice euphemisim for illegal aliens). I was listening to the radio this morning when they were discussing the PS3 launch, and a caller called in to say that he paid 5 or 6 of them $200-300 each to stand in line (as it was a 1 per customer limit). So now, this guy has 6 PS3's, and from what I'm hearing, they are actually selling for closer to $3000 or more. It's funny really; Sony is losing hundreds per unit and the first in line are making thousands on the same unit. Capitalism is indeed the mother of ingenuity.
-Mike

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I though about that but then wondered who I could trust with $650 of my money and then trust to stand in line and then give me the device. ALl I could come up with is a pre-allocated money that included taxes. But still, then I thought that surely the time in line they would learn about the possibility of selling the item themselves for a larger profit. Anyway, I figured I'd lose money in the end and decided against it.
To make matters worse Circuit City's online store was selling the 20GB version as a package with 3 games for $725. While I was on the phone wth a friend determining if the cheaper unit could also prove profitable --I only researched the 60GB unit as I figured there were many more of them since Sony loses slightly less money on them-- they all sold out.
I don't make a very good capitalist.