It's OOS because all the commoners who don't normally buy stuff online bought all the units--they got lucky and we didn't
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
crappity crap crap!
I was #3 in line at my local gamestop, and i just called them to find out that they only got TWO 60GB models!!
and GUESS who was THIRD in line?
those bastards!!! now i gotta wait for 2nd shipment!
They didn't offer a 20GB model to you?
they did, but there's hardly any profit with the 20's!
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Seriously, I came in to see a pic of someone that had it set up, or playing it, and maybe get a quick review of how the games are.Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
It's funny........not a *single* person yet has posted how badly they've wanted to play their PS3.
Stabbings? Shootings? This is just wack.
Originally posted by: Raduque
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
crappity crap crap!
I was #3 in line at my local gamestop, and i just called them to find out that they only got TWO 60GB models!!
and GUESS who was THIRD in line?
those bastards!!! now i gotta wait for 2nd shipment!
They didn't offer a 20GB model to you?
they did, but there's hardly any profit with the 20's!
Ha ha, dirty scalper.
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Seriously, I came in to see a pic of someone that had it set up, or playing it, and maybe get a quick review of how the games are.Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
It's funny........not a *single* person yet has posted how badly they've wanted to play their PS3.
Stabbings? Shootings? This is just wack.
Nobody wants the damn things for themselves. Everybody just wants to turn a quick buck. But as somebody in the thread mentioned earlier, if everybody just wants to sell it, who's buying them on Fleabay?
Originally posted by: Queasy
Alright, which one you guys tried to steal my PS3?????
Went to EB Games to pick up my pre-order, gave the guy my phone number and my driver's license and he said, "Oh, you are the REAL Scott Grill." Some dude had come in earlier in the day and tried to pass himself off as me....No ID and got my phone # wrong. He even brought in some guy and said that the guy was his Dad and could vouch for his identity. "What's your Dad's last name?" the EB Games clerk I asked. "Schaeffer" the guy responded. "No ID, No PS3." the clerk responded.
The people in EB Games think he works over at a T-Mobile kiosk in the mall. I don't even know anybody that works in a mall anymore so I've no clue how he got my name unless he managed to glance at a list or something.
Weird.
Originally posted by: BoomerD
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_320195924.html
Gunmen Rob Local Game Store For PS3s
(CBS13) ELK GROVE, Calif. Police are trying to track down two gunmen wanted for robbing an Elk Grove game store and stealing their complete supply of PlayStation 3s.
The suspects walked into Game Stop on Laguna Blvd. and Bruceville Road Thursday morning, and left with several PS3 game consoles, which run for $600 a piece, and four X-Boxes.
One of the suspects was described as African-American, 6'3", wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. The other suspect is described as Hispanic, 6'3", also wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.
If you know any information about the robbery or the suspects, please contact Elk Grove Police.
Sony will be releasing only 400,000 PS3s throughout the United States tomorrow. The auction website, eBay, has PS3s listed for resale as high as $2,000.
How can one person have 3 spots?Originally posted by: Queasy
Great...now I have to look up the Sam's Club corporate number and call and complain for my mother-in-law. She had been camping out at a Sam's and had the #2, 3, and 4 spots. They kept telling the people in line that they were getting 3 units. The Fed Ex truck showed up late and, according to the mother-in-law, someone saw them take 6 units off the truck. They then turned around and sold only 2 units.
Originally posted by: randay
I hope this is the end of stupid console launches. Im getting sick of them.
Originally posted by: meltdown75
How can one person have 3 spots?Originally posted by: Queasy
Great...now I have to look up the Sam's Club corporate number and call and complain for my mother-in-law. She had been camping out at a Sam's and had the #2, 3, and 4 spots. They kept telling the people in line that they were getting 3 units. The Fed Ex truck showed up late and, according to the mother-in-law, someone saw them take 6 units off the truck. They then turned around and sold only 2 units.
Originally posted by: Queasy
Great...now I have to look up the Sam's Club corporate number and call and complain for my mother-in-law. She had been camping out at a Sam's and had the #2, 3, and 4 spots. They kept telling the people in line that they were getting 3 units. The Fed Ex truck showed up late and, according to the mother-in-law, someone saw them take 6 units off the truck. They then turned around and sold only 2 units.
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
this shiet is hilarous.
I cant believe people these days.
Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
this shiet is hilarous.
I cant believe people these days.
I guarantee it wont be happening anymore, no more camping after all the robberies and shootings. what some best buys did was smart, they gave out vouchers for as many as they were gonna sell and sent everyone home so that there wouldnt be a camp all night. This is what both best buys in hawaii did for the 360 as well. Hopefully everyone just does pre-orders from now on or something.
Billy?s Final PS3 Thoughts:
My feelings about the PlayStation 3 have definitely been a long for a massive rollercoaster ride since the system was officially revealed a few years ago. While I?m all about the HD capabilities, serious power of the system, and key titles that will be released for the PlayStation 3, there are a number of things that are keeping me from plunking the $600 down this year.
Any console purchasing decision always starts with what games you want, and for me, there are only a few exclusive games on PlayStation 3 that I want ? Resistance: Fall Of Man and Ridge Racer 7. Since I already own a Xbox 360, most of the games that made our must have list are either also coming out for the Xbox 360, already in my Xbox 360 collection, or have additional features or properties that are better on the Xbox 360. Resistance is incredible, and Ridge Racer 7 is fun, but is it necessary for me to drop $600 right now just so I can play those two games?
I?ve spent quite a bit of time with our retail PlayStation 3, and while I?ve warmed up slowly to the interface and features of the PlayStation 3, overall the experience isn?t seamless and is quite clunky and frustrating. Just hooking up the console and getting it to work with my HDTV and receiver was a pain in the ass. Initially I thought that connecting the PlayStation 3 would be as simple as pulling out my PlayStation 2 and connecting the PS2 component cables, and then optical cable, and finally my internet connection, but this was not the case. First you need to connect using composite, change settings, and then you have 30 seconds to swap to component cables and change settings on TV. If you don?t work fast enough you?ll have to start the whole process over. After tossing in a game, I wasn?t getting any audio, and I had to go in and manually configure the settings for optical PCM. What happened to the days of simple plug and play console setup? I know this is the HD era and everything, but it wasn?t as time consuming with my Xbox 360 or Wii. After a few moments with those consoles they worked just fine.
I would have thought that playing games would be the least of my problems, but this also wasn?t the case. I?ve got a 1080i television, so I set my PlayStation 3 up for 1080i. Should be as simple as that, right? Nope. I put Resistance in and it tells me that I should switch it to 720p for optimal viewing. Does it ask me if I want to switch the settings? No. I have to quit the game, go switch to 720p, and then restart the game. I then put in Tiger Woods after going back to 1080i and everything looks squished -- not the HD experience I yearned for. I have no clue why and I get no warning or indication from the game as to why it?s not optimally displaying the game correctly. So, by chance, I look at the back of the game box and it says it supports up to 720p. I quit out of the game and switch to 720p and finally everything works. Why the PlayStation 3 can?t auto scale or be a little more user friendly is beyond me. This is reminding me of the setup process for gaming on my old 486 PC. But, then again, the PlayStation 3 is a computer, right?
My PlayStation 2 has been on its last legs for months. Its coughing and wheezing, and I was really hoping the PlayStation 3 would allow me to put the PlayStation 2 to rest. Since the PlayStation 3 basically houses the PS2 chipset, I thought that the backwards compatibility would be fine, but guess what. Not only do over 200 games not work correctly with the system, the ones that do don?t function as well as they would. A prime example is Final Fantasy XII. It?s probably the PlayStation 2?s premier title this year, and it looks like crap. There are scan lines everywhere, and it?s not half as crisp as it is on my PlayStation 2. So much for that.
A few other elements also don?t work on the PlayStation 3 as well including Bluetooth detection for wireless headsets, and remote play for the PSP. Granted Sony could have an update to download coming any day now, but for a new console I expect everything to work flawlessly out of the box. Especially when I just dropped $600 for this thing, it should hop out of the box, give me a big hug, and play games and function like I was in heaven.
Finally, Blu-ray. Talladega Nights, baby! First off, I have to say this movie is hilarious and well worth watching. While the movie looks great and I can tell to a point that it?s cleaner than DVD, it?s really not that much better in my opinion. DVDs already look incredible on my TV, and while Blu-ray does look better, I?m not quite yet convinced that I need to dive into either HD-DVD or Blu-ray. I?m old enough to have lived through the VHS / Beta war and I?m not going to do that until these companies figure this crap out. The included Talladega Nights disc doesn?t convey the experience that?s going to sell me on Blu-ray to begin with. Where the hell are all these super awesome special features that Blu-ray is supposed to have? There?s no commentary and no other special features at all. You get the movie, language options, and a Blu-ray preview of a bunch of old movies you probably own the DVDs for. So far, I?m not all that motivated to make the move.
With all that said, there are things I do like about the system. I love the cross media bar and think it?s a great way to access all of the options the console has quickly and easily. Especially if you?ve got a PSP, you?re completely comfortable with the layout. Media capability for photos and videos is fantastic, and accessing and scrolling through photos is quick and seamless. It?s just a shame that Sony hasn?t allowed for the streaming of pictures, music, and video from the PC. After Microsoft has done it so well, it should be a standard.
Finally, I love the controller. Thank God it?s wireless and thank God L2 and R2 are actual triggers instead of buttons. I?m not at all sold on the Sixaxis functionality with the above launch titles, but that?s Sony?s fault for not clueing in developers until too late in the development cycle. I look forward to seeing games like Lair and Warhawk work their inherent tilt functionality.
At the end of the day, the PlayStation 3 is an extremely powerful system with a ton of potential. Most of the games that are also available on the Xbox 360 look just as good, run smoother on the Xbox 360, and have been out for a while. The future game selection and the eventual working out the initial kinks will ultimately push me over the edge to get a PlayStation 3 sometime next year. There?s no denying Lair, Motorstorm, Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots, Devil May Cry 4, or Final Fantasy XIII will be what will eventually force me to drain my wallet, but for now it?s just not in the cards.
Originally posted by: Cutterhead
Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
this shiet is hilarous.
I cant believe people these days.
I guarantee it wont be happening anymore, no more camping after all the robberies and shootings. what some best buys did was smart, they gave out vouchers for as many as they were gonna sell and sent everyone home so that there wouldnt be a camp all night. This is what both best buys in hawaii did for the 360 as well. Hopefully everyone just does pre-orders from now on or something.
So next time wouldn't people just camp out for the vouchers? How will they determine who gets the vouchers? The first person to show up a month before the console release with a tent in hand? Or maybe they just give them out at some random unannounced time before the launch... in any of these cases I don't see how it really solves the camping problem. Pretty much the only way to do it as I can see, would be through pre-ordering exclusively, and not accepting more pre-orders than can be met by supply.
You didn't post your preorder receipt here, did you? Or any of your other preorder info? I mean, I can get your name and location from your profile, but I'm sure there's more than one EBGames in the ATL. It's possible an AT'er tried to snag it before you could, there are some shady members here.Originally posted by: Queasy
Alright, which one you guys tried to steal my PS3?????
Went to EB Games to pick up my pre-order, gave the guy my phone number and my driver's license and he said, "Oh, you are the REAL Scott Grill." Some dude had come in earlier in the day and tried to pass himself off as me....No ID and got my phone # wrong. He even brought in some guy and said that the guy was his Dad and could vouch for his identity. "What's your Dad's last name?" the EB Games clerk I asked. "Schaeffer" the guy responded. "No ID, No PS3." the clerk responded.
The people in EB Games think he works over at a T-Mobile kiosk in the mall. I don't even know anybody that works in a mall anymore so I've no clue how he got my name unless he managed to glance at a list or something.
Weird.
Originally posted by: MrBond
You didn't post your preorder receipt here, did you? Or any of your other preorder info? I mean, I can get your name and location from your profile, but I'm sure there's more than one EBGames in the ATL. It's possible an AT'er tried to snag it before you could, there are some shady members here.Originally posted by: Queasy
Alright, which one you guys tried to steal my PS3?????
Went to EB Games to pick up my pre-order, gave the guy my phone number and my driver's license and he said, "Oh, you are the REAL Scott Grill." Some dude had come in earlier in the day and tried to pass himself off as me....No ID and got my phone # wrong. He even brought in some guy and said that the guy was his Dad and could vouch for his identity. "What's your Dad's last name?" the EB Games clerk I asked. "Schaeffer" the guy responded. "No ID, No PS3." the clerk responded.
The people in EB Games think he works over at a T-Mobile kiosk in the mall. I don't even know anybody that works in a mall anymore so I've no clue how he got my name unless he managed to glance at a list or something.
Weird.