HMV’s offering 5,000 people the opportunity to pre-order a PS3 online – provided they also buy a PSP and some games, bringing the total to a very reasonable £674.99. Apparently if you order this bargain bundle you’ll take precedence over other HMV online customers in the PS3 stakes – although there’s no guarantee that if you do take advantage of this fantastic deal, you’ll get your console on launch day or at any time close to launch day. The small print says “HMV cannot guarantee that registration on the Priority List means that you will receive your PS3 on the estimated release date, nor that your order will be fulfilled within any given time frame.”
A Sony spokesperson told Gamesindustry.biz, which broke the story:
“This is just one of a number of value added incentives that retailers will be offering to mark the launch of PS3.
“Consumers are free to shop around to find a package that best suits their own needs, and offers the greatest value for money.”
But why shop around when HMV’s offfering such a good deal?
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There’s a brilliant comment on Eurogamer. Ramaldi wrote:
So this is to get in line to buy the console that costs twice as much as the Wii, is half the fun to play, and is only in short supply because Sony are too fucking useless to manage to make enough for their own (late) launch date? Uh, I think I might be washing my hair then.
This article on PS3 scalpers in the US seeing their arses says it all, really:
http://tinyurl.com/2ews3y
This article about PS3 scalpers in the US seeing their arses says it all really:
http://tinyurl.com/2ews3y
I tried to post a link to an article about PS3 scalpers in the US losing loadsamoney as PS3 sales continue to tank, but WordPress didn’t seem to like the TinyURL for some reason.
The post went into the moderation queue as suspected spam. Dunno why, because it’s set to treat posts with more than one link as spam. Unless it included your site link in the total.
Should be there now.
Thought it could be that but I’ve posted a single link before (earlier today even!) so it is odd.
It was probably the combination of a link and the word “arses”.
I would be very surprised if there is anything like the shortages in the states or the UK launches of the wii and the 360. I think they’ve got their supply chain sorted. It’s also spring not christmas and the £100 price difference between here and the US will get a lot of coverage.
Is it just me, or is the tale of sad would-be ebay scalpers wallowing in misery utterly heartwarming?
>Is it just me, or is the tale of sad would-be ebay scalpers wallowing in misery utterly heartwarming?
More heartwarming than the conclusion to “A Christmas Carol”. One could almost believe it was to describe such situations that the word “schadenfreude” was invented. Danke schoen!
HMV’s backed down, according to computeractive:
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