Jesus christ...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...n_shooting

Oh, I thought you meant there was one chance...I didn't realize someone was actually shot!

applekisses said:

lol.. yeah some dumbasses shot another dumbass for a dumbass ps3

Damn sad

good lord

ya know this is just stupid

I went to Target yesterday and I saw a long line of people waiting outside.I had no idea what they were in line for,lol.It reminded me of the days when I would camp out to get concert tickets

I can't believe this PS3 is so popular!

SoulAlive said:

yeah, but you didnt catch a bullet for your seat

every time i think i've succumbed to the depths of geekiness, there's always a story like this that reminds me i still got some hipster left in me after all.

IAintTheOne said:

true

There's people at our local Best Buy's and Circuit City's that have been camping out in the parking lots since Wednesday, they got tents pitched around the perimeter of the store. Some of them are just trying to get one so they can resell it for $2000 or so, and turn a profit - they don't even want one for themselves.

Disgusting that people stoop to that level

luv4u said:

well shit, i so wanted to cop a stroll down to my local hellmart and see the chaos.. lol

The stores should be ashamed of themselves. When Best Buys and Cirucuit Citys in Chicago have pre-holiday sales, they hand out tickets like normal people.

IAintTheOne said:

Stymie said:

the manufacturer should with hold sales to stores that don't

SpisaRibb said:

im serious, i woulda loved to watch these fools bang out for somethin that'll probably blow the fuck up, hence why you wait for shit like 2nd or 3rd generation because the bugs are likely worked out..

Every holiday season, some manufacturer deliberately creates a shortage of a product, to stir up all this hype and news coverage and get free advertising. And like lemmings, retarded consumers keep falling for this crap. Two-three months from now, store shelves will be filled with PS3's.

Tom said:

Yep, so I will wait it out.

IAintTheOne said:

sounds like my kind of thing too, like watching a john waters film.
but not worth gett caught in the cross fire

Despite hefty price tag, gamers line up as coveted PlayStation 3 goes on sale
at 9:31 on November 17, 2006, EST.


Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, left, on Thursday hands a Sony PlayStation 3 game console to Ralph Cleary, who was the first in line at a Best Buy store in Los Angeles. Cleary said he had been waiting in line outside the store to buy a PlayStation 3 game console since Tuesday. Sales of the device did not begin until midnight, so Cleary could not keep the PlayStation. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


NEW YORK (CP) - Diehard gamers and entrepreneurs prepared to shell out US$500 or more for the new PlayStation 3 console that goes on sale Friday, many of them after waiting in line for days despite the likelihood they'd go home empty-handed.

At a midnight launch event at a Circuit City store in New York, Sergio Rodriguez was the first to emerge with a new console Friday as people still standing in line outside the store cheered. He had been camped outside the store since Sunday.

"This is the best game ever. It's so worth the wait," the 25-year-old graphics designer said. "Some people may call me crazy, but I really love to play."

With Sony promising only 400,000 systems for the U.S. launch, the chance of disappointment was high. While retailers tried to keep expectations low, lines snaked around the block at many stores.

The situation was much the same in Canada, where anxious gamers started lining up outside Best Buy locations across the country Thursday evening, even though the stores hadn't planned on opening until 8 a.m. on Friday.

Spokeswoman Heather Buksh said each store was expected to post a sign outside, stating the limited number of units it had, by the end of the night so people wouldn't walk away empty-handed.

"If there's already more people in line for the units than they have in the store, then we want customers to know that so that they're not waiting and are disappointed in the morning," she said from Burnaby, B.C.

Wal-Mart outlets in Canada were also feeling the buzz. An employee at one of the stores in Victoria said about eight people were waiting in line Thursday night, yet the store only had six units to sell.

Nine months pregnant, Julie Mosley said she tried to ignore her contractions for the chance to score machines for her family, her daughter's father and her younger brother.

"I'm going to hold out as long as I can," Mosley said Thursday as she sat on a cooler in the 19th spot outside a Circuit City in Mount Laurel, N.J., joking about giving birth on the sidewalk.

Potential customers braved freezing temperatures in Fargo, N.D., and heavy rain and winds in Baltimore and other East Coast locales.

"Katrina could come through here and I wouldn't switch," said Marco Cajas, 20, of Baltimore. "I spent the night on the cold street."

Short supplies and strong demand could be the formula for trouble as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 makes its North American debut, a half-year late because of problems completing work on a built-in, next-generation DVD player.

The struggling electronics company, which has contended with laptop battery recalls and trails rivals in key products such as music players and liquid crystal displays, is counting on the PS3 to maintain and build its dominant position in video game consoles.

In Palmdale, Calif., authorities shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday and started running around inside the store. In West Bend, Wis., a 19-year-old man ran into a pole and struck his head racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.

At a Circuit City Stores Inc. location in New York, potential buyers traded accusations of line-cutting and tried to avoid fights amid heightened emotions.

"You can't even sleep unless you have your eyes open," Wataru Nada said.

Some customers were buying PS3 machines for themselves or as gifts, but many were hoping to resell them at a profit. Even before Friday's launch, units were fetching four or five times their retail price at the EBay Inc. auction site.

"As soon as I buy it, I'm going to sell it," said Jose Mota, 26, who grabbed the first spot in line Tuesday outside the Union City, Calif., Best Buy. "People will pay whatever just to get their hands on one."

Many stores reported calm.

At a Best Buy in Boston with 140 machines for sale, employees simply gave out tickets for the first 140 in line so that everyone can go home.

At San Francisco's Sony Metreon mall, a "sacred scroll" notebook kept track of the first 505 people in line so they could go to the bathroom or pick up food without losing their spots. Some even got wristbands guaranteeing a unit.

"It's pretty cool that I'd be one of the first people in the country to have it," said Chris Toribio, 21. "Being in line, waiting here with all these other people and making a big deal of the introduction - in some ways this all feels even better than actually buying the game."

There was even a vibrant economy in Mount Laurel, N.J. Restaurants not only delivered pizza and wings, but also dispatched workers to hand out menus. The Dick's Sporting Goods store nearby sold camp chairs and more than a few tents.

Machines sold out quickly in Japan when they went on sale last Saturday. Plagued with production problems, Sony only had 100,000 available for the Japanese launch.

Sony promised 400,000 PS3 machines for the United States on Friday and about one million by year's end. Worldwide, it was expecting two million this year, half its original projections. Sony has already delayed the European launch until March.

"It's a joke. This is not even a release, this is a joke," said Alexander Davis, manager of Gamerama in Toronto, which didn't have any lineups because it couldn't get any consoles to sell.

"Four-hundred thousand machines . . .? In my opinion that's a big screwup. If you needed six million machines, and you can only bring 400,000 (to the market), why bother? You look like a fool."

Even as retailers drummed up publicity by throwing parties and inviting celebrities, Best Buy Co. Inc. and others tried to lower expectations and curb any frustrations by warning customers all week that supplies would be tight. Game retailer GameStop Corp. said it won't be able to fulfil all of its pre-orders on launch day.

Jack Tretton, executive vice-president at Sony Computer Entertainment America, said retailers will be receiving new PlayStations daily - expedited by plane rather than ships.

"At some point we want to get to some degree of normalcy, but that remains to be seen," Tretton said, adding that seeing all the people camped out and lined up for the console "kind of makes all the effort worth it."

Enthusiasm for the PlayStation 3 wasn't dampened by its high price tag - US$500 for the basic model with a 20-gigabyte drive and $600 for the 60-gigabyte version, which also has built-in wireless.

By contrast, Nintendo Co.'s Wii, which goes on sale Sunday, retails for US$250. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, which had a year's head start over rivals, sells for $300 to $400.

Sony crammed the PlayStation 3 with the very latest in cutting-edge technology, and it dominated the previous generation of consoles with 70 per cent of the global market. The company is counting on a boost as it struggles to mount a recovery after several years of poor earnings.

The PlayStation 3 was supposed to debut last spring, but Sony announced in March that it was still trying to complete the copyright-protection technology and other standards for the Blu-ray DVD players. The company said those preparations were initially to have been completed by September 2005.

Gamers waited anyhow, even as Sony conceded Tuesday that the new console won't run some of the 8,000 titles designed for previous PlayStations despite promises of being fully compatible. Awaiting a second round of shipments wasn't an option for many.

"By next year, everyone is going to have it," said Ever Ortiz, a high school junior from the Bronx, sitting in a camping chair and fenced off by police barricades in one of New York's busiest neighbourhoods. "It won't be a great thing."


©The Canadian Press, 2006

Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, left, on Thursday hands a Sony PlayStation 3 game console to Ralph Cleary, who was the first in line at a Best Buy store in Los Angeles. Cleary said he had been waiting in line outside the store to buy a PlayStation 3 game console since Tuesday.


I can see why Ralph was first

SpisaRibb said:

By the look on his face, I reckon that the moment he got home and got it out of the box, it was covered in cum in minutes.

Haystack said:

I almost went to my Wal-Mart but I would have never gotten there in time.

Damn I want one. Of course I am just going to sell it...er I mean it's for my sick grandmother who needs an ultra state of the art gaming system to live.

yesterday i saw a line of people waiting, sitting on teh sidewalk with sleping bags and coats and nackpacks. it turns out that today, target's sale of PS3 begins. those folks were waiting for over 24 hours to get in first to buy it

CNN had this...

PlayStation 3 shopper shot outside Wal-Mart

POSTED: 1:06 p.m. EST, November 17, 2006

PUTNAM, Connecticut (AP) -- Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for the new Playstation 3 game system to go on sale early Friday and shot a man who refused to give up his money, authorities said.

In other states, customers pushed and shoved their way to the shelves to get at the limited supply, and in Kentucky, four people were grazed by BBs fired from a passing vehicle as they waited for a Best Buy store to open.

The two gunman in Putnam, Connecticut, confronted 15 to 20 people standing outside a Wal-Mart store shortly after 3 a.m. and demanded money, said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.

"One of the patrons resisted. That patron was shot," Vance said.

He said the two gunmen fled after shooting a 21-year-old Massachusetts man in the chest and shoulder. The victim was taken to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate word on his condition.

Vance said police were searching for the suspects, both believed to be in their teens. He said one was wearing a ski mask and brandishing a handgun, and the other had what appeared to be a shotgun.

Aside from the police tape, things had returned to normal by midmorning at the Wal-Mart store in rural Putnam, a town of about 9,000 residents near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island state lines.

Short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to lines of buyers, some waiting for days, outside stores across the country.

In Palmdale, California, authorities shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday. In West Bend, Wisconsin, a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.

In Lexington, Kentucky, someone fired BB pellets from a passing vehicle at people waiting outside a Best Buy store, according to television station WKYT, whose own reporter said she was among four people grazed while she interviewed buyers in line.

A Best Buy in Boston, Massachusetts, aware it had only 140 of the consoles, got smart about the big sale -- its employees gave out tickets to the first 140 people in line so everyone could go home until the store opened.

It's the new cabbage patch dolls. The same thing happened when the XBOX360 dropped. People were robbing at gun point over it.

IAintTheOne said:

Have you seen the features though.