I hope that most Sony fans are careful with their launch purchases and leave crud like this on the shelf where it belongs. Send a clear message to the game publishers.

I hope all these people buying PS3's for resale on ebay are remembering to claim the gain on their tax returns. I would hate to see the IRS crackdown on them.

I actually put up my hand in the "best ever launch lineups" thread to nominate xbox 1, but no one else did I think. Halo was obviously a stellar title on it's own, and if you compare it to just other launch titles, well enough said. But I was also one of those who had an absolute ball with 4 player fuzion frenzy, and JSRF was also in the mix.

Of course I agree, what's important is what's out now, and what will be out in the near future, not what other consoles may have had 1 year ago.

Jet Set Radio wasn't launch (it was February or March afterwards). Trust me.. that was the game I needed an Xbox for.

Used to live in Aus. The Aus launch was Halo, Fuzion Frenzy, JSRF, Oddworld, DOA3, Gotham, and the rest I forget .

I really they would have done a part 3 with an online mode.. form your own gangs and have street battles tagging other gangs turf and such. Man.. I loved that game. I think they screwed up putting it on Xbox personally.. here's hoping that Sega sees the potential of using the Wii remote as a can of spray paint.

I agree with wanting a third one. I also hated it when they took away the motions need to paint the design and changed it to just a button press. It really took the feel of the tag away. The dreamcast version was lovely - i even snagged the soundtrack giveaway with that version.

Man, that's a great idea. Hold it vertical and either use your thumb on the A button or index finger on the B button as a trigger. Then just move it around as you would. That'd be awesome.

New PS3 consoles stolen at gunpoint

They also took several Xbox-360, but that is so last year.

Equal Opportunity Robbers

At least they aren't console bashing.

Robbing the rich to feed the poor.



...or robbing the rich to get also rich.

From the latest EBGames newsletter:
So, they don't have enough to fill pre-orders, but they've got enough to sell them online in crazy $1000 bundles? Way to fucking go, GameStop/EB!

Yeah, i'm done with those guys. I'd rather keep my games than trade them in there to support that kind of shit. I have no problem with a game and a controller bundle, but that is ludicrous.

BTW, the Costco.com thing went down early. They put a "Sold Out" sign on the front page in less than 2 minutes.

That's definitely ballsy.

Friday, November 17, 2006

At the Best Buy electronics store in South Austin, the launch of the long-awaited Sony PlayStation 3 video game console was over in 16 minutes Friday morning.

Thirty-four customers, many of whom had camped out at the store for two days, walked through the store doors at 8 a.m. and by 8:16 they had bought all 34 game consoles the store had in stock.



That was longer than it took at other Austin stores that had only a handful of systems for sale.

Sony Corp., beset by component shortages for the pricey game player, was expected to ship only 400,000 to the United States and Canada for the North American launch Friday.

The company promised another 700,000 or so additional boxes would be shipped to stores before Christmas.

The PS3 is estimated to have roughly 1,000 times the computing power of PlayStation 2, which was introduced six years ago. The Cell Broadband Processor, which commands the console, was designed in Austin by engineers and researchers from Sony, Toshiba Corp. and IBM Corp.

Most of the buyers were already making plans to resell their purchases on the Internet for $3,000 and up. The consoles retail for $500 for the basic model with a 20-gigabyte hard drive and $600 for the 60-gigabyte version with built-in wireless.

"The average price on e-Bay is $3,000," said 21-year-old Ian Pape. "I am probably going to take it up to $4,000. It depends. If Sony can ship out more units, I will sell it earlier. If they can't get their act together, then I will wait for the most desperate parent I can find."

Pape, who had camped out at the store since Wednesday afternoon, said he was heading home for a long shower and a nap on his couch.

At the Best Buy in Research Boulevard near the Arboretum, one enterprising man sold his place in line — he was 16th — for $1,000.

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I hope these people wait too long and do not make much money off the sale. I wonder how many of the deals will close at 3000. What a waste of money.

Now THIS guy is a genius. I was talking to my roomate about this and mentioned if I had somehow stumbled upon a PS3 I would probably instantly try to sell it off to some for a few hundred bucks more than retail right then and there rather than go for the 'big riches' on Ebay. I wonder if the person he sold it to actually wanted the system? Because if he was doing it for scalping that's insane... an extra grand in the hole before you can even start claiming profits? The risk/reward just isn't balanced there.

Definitely. If you can find a sucker on the spot, even for less cash, it is definitely the better route to go than ebay. Money for a spot in line? Sold.

YGM.

Yeah - but 20 minutes later the sign was gone and I was able to FINALLY get one added to my cart. Only to have the whole site crash on me. Weak.

And this auction cracked me up...
http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-PLAYSTATION...QQcmdZViewItem



Maybe it's unused, but the box has clearly been opened.

The PS3 is clearly much more powerful than the PS2 for sure, but 1000 times more powerful?? Yeah right.

What this guy fails to understand is that 99.99% of those auctions with $3000 bids are by bidders who are just driving the price up and not really intending to pay for it. I will eat my dirty underwear if he successfully sells his PS3 for $3000-$4000.

I think the eBay market will get watered down a bit (for legit buyers and sellers) and a lot of these people will be disappointed.

= J