Enough is enough!
The PS3 hits stores today and Chaos insues... Nation wide there's a total of about 200,000 systems... that's right... All of America 200,000! This is quite frankly outrageous! Not only is that not nearly enough to meet the vast demand for the system but it's about half of what they promised would be out!
And thus, with the supply so limited we find enthuistiac people with way too much time and money on their hands camping outside stores nationwide to get their hands on what exactly? Well at this point and time a $600 paperweight. Were there actually any launch titles worth buying the PS3 for, I would fully have no probelm with these people camping out, heck, I might have even been inclined to join them. But not only has Sony launched the PS3 with a mockingly low supply, they felt they were perfectly justified with asking gamers all over America to frantically dash about trying to get their hands on one, and fork over $600 a pop (Which the president of Sony said was probally too cheap) when all the Launch titles are subpar at best!
And if I'm not enough to convince you of the disaster that is the PS3 Launch, get a load of this
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/scea_vp_on_back.html
What ticks me off more than anything though is that Crappy system launches is by no means a new thing. Go back to the PS2? Sony was pulling the same crap they're pulling now back then! But at least the PS2 started with a $300 pricetag and had a decent selection of Launch titles, as opposed to the garbage they're launching with the PS3 (and asking twice the price for)
Remember the Xbox360 fiasciao of Last year? I knew people who reserved their 360's in November and didn't actually recieve one till April! No other way to say it that is unacceptable!
If this was any other industry the comsumers wouldn't stand for this! If this was a crop shortage, if this was a car shortage, heck, even if this was like a TV shortage or something trivial like that there would be an outrage! So why do we as gamers have to be walked upon by gaming companies as they throw a single steak to every store and watch the dogs fight over it?
Let's hope the Nintendo Breaks this trend.... With Gamestop alone getting about 750,000 units nationwide at launch, it looks like that might very well be possible. The Nintendo Wii, as well as being readily avaible at launch for first time in launch history in almost a decade, will sport a $250 price tag, and come with a game included as well as a launch library of many many worthwile games (Including the new Zelda game w()()7 w()()7!)
Can it be that in this day and age Nintendo is the only one who actually knows how to treat their customers? Personally I'de say that's about it as they orogionally all about gameing, whereas Sony and Microsoft were (and obviously still are) giant heartless corporations.
Frankly, as a gamer, I'm tired of having giant game companies push us around! Enough is enough!
I eagerly await the launch of the Nindendo Wii on Sunday and hopefully will be playing Zelda while the 3 people who actually got PS3s are staring at their $600 paperweight.
And thus, with the supply so limited we find enthuistiac people with way too much time and money on their hands camping outside stores nationwide to get their hands on what exactly? Well at this point and time a $600 paperweight. Were there actually any launch titles worth buying the PS3 for, I would fully have no probelm with these people camping out, heck, I might have even been inclined to join them. But not only has Sony launched the PS3 with a mockingly low supply, they felt they were perfectly justified with asking gamers all over America to frantically dash about trying to get their hands on one, and fork over $600 a pop (Which the president of Sony said was probally too cheap) when all the Launch titles are subpar at best!
And if I'm not enough to convince you of the disaster that is the PS3 Launch, get a load of this
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/scea_vp_on_back.html
What ticks me off more than anything though is that Crappy system launches is by no means a new thing. Go back to the PS2? Sony was pulling the same crap they're pulling now back then! But at least the PS2 started with a $300 pricetag and had a decent selection of Launch titles, as opposed to the garbage they're launching with the PS3 (and asking twice the price for)
Remember the Xbox360 fiasciao of Last year? I knew people who reserved their 360's in November and didn't actually recieve one till April! No other way to say it that is unacceptable!
If this was any other industry the comsumers wouldn't stand for this! If this was a crop shortage, if this was a car shortage, heck, even if this was like a TV shortage or something trivial like that there would be an outrage! So why do we as gamers have to be walked upon by gaming companies as they throw a single steak to every store and watch the dogs fight over it?
Let's hope the Nintendo Breaks this trend.... With Gamestop alone getting about 750,000 units nationwide at launch, it looks like that might very well be possible. The Nintendo Wii, as well as being readily avaible at launch for first time in launch history in almost a decade, will sport a $250 price tag, and come with a game included as well as a launch library of many many worthwile games (Including the new Zelda game w()()7 w()()7!)
Can it be that in this day and age Nintendo is the only one who actually knows how to treat their customers? Personally I'de say that's about it as they orogionally all about gameing, whereas Sony and Microsoft were (and obviously still are) giant heartless corporations.
Frankly, as a gamer, I'm tired of having giant game companies push us around! Enough is enough!
I eagerly await the launch of the Nindendo Wii on Sunday and hopefully will be playing Zelda while the 3 people who actually got PS3s are staring at their $600 paperweight.
posted by Ross at 10:30 AM
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