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PS3 Lines Already Forming In America
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samzenpus
on Thu Nov 09, 2006 04:03 AM
from the get-a-life dept.
from the get-a-life dept.
Wowzer writes "Nine days until Sony's PlayStation 3 launches in America, and lines are already forming. From the article: "Someone went to Best Buy this morning and saw about 7 people waiting outside. He went inside and one of the workers told him that they had been there since Monday. It must be a tough job being such big PS3 fans and being the butt of many passer-by jokes like 'Where is the line for PS4? Is it on the other side?'"
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Jokes? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not a fan of the PS3, and I'd find it tough to listen to a 'joke' like that.
Damnit... (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's an idea (Score:5, Insightful)
dept. (Score:5, Funny)
Says the Slashdot editor...
Actually... (Score:3, Interesting)
Mad (Score:3, Interesting)
Holding tables at the food court (Score:5, Interesting)
By essentially creating a semaphore on the tables, the 'holders' were forcing a backlog of 'eaters'. By taking the resource and not using it, they blocked other users who would be ready to use the table immediately. With more 'eaters' coming out of line, the more crowded and backed up the general flow of customers got.
By sitting in line for a PS3, you're perhaps creating a slight advantage for yourself, but you are unoptimizing the situation for everyone else. You don't smell nice either, and you look like vagrants standing around in front of Best Buy.
The hype machine (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who really wants a PS3 that badly would have pre-ordered.
I'm getting a Wii on Euro launch day, and I fully expect to queue for no more than 5 minutes, wave my preorder receipt at the attendant, and walk out with a Wii.
Well I for one* (Score:2, Informative)
* Welcome our new PS3 overlords <ducks>
Battered spouse syndrome writ large (Score:5, Funny)
Cool stuff you can do for $600:
- Buy a bike
- Rent a decent sports car for a couple of days
- Take a plane trip to just about anywhere
- All-day shopping spree at a huge bookstore
- Adopt a starving Brungarian refugee
- Join a health club
- Take professional-development classes
- Many things involving girls
Dumbass stuff you can do with $600:
- Donate to the Cowboy Neal Retirement Fund
- Give it to Sony
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The question is (Score:2, Insightful)
deb. (Score:2)
Microsoft should buy all 200000, then trash them (Score:5, Funny)
maybe all employees will buy 1 each and use them for blueray, and nothing else.
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Not if they can afford to buy one! Ba-dum-ching!
Thank you, thank you, your all too kind ^_^
So, uh, have the smashmy...com guys got a spot in one of those lines?
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Dude, you really, really, really need to get a life.
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In your analogy, it would be Sony causing the backlog, not the people in line. You have a producers and consumers problem and the consumers are actual consumers. It seems fairly trivial to figure out who the producers would be.
Are you arguing, then, that Sony should release the PS3 because people are waiting for it?
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Stupidly obvious question.. but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Massive demand... (Score:5, Funny)
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The table queue has two different ways of queuing, where they stand around waiting for a table and one where the table is taken prior to getting food. The former is optimal, while the latter isn't. This is because the table has a period of time where it is not being used for its primary purpose, eating.
Where in the PS3 queue does any inefficiency off PS3 distribution accrue? The PS3's will be distributed at the same pace no mat
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Apparently you haven't heard. Even pre-orders were extremely limited, and there were lots of folks camping out for those. And unfortunately for even many of those folks, they ended up still not getting one.
:) It's stupid to buy a console at launch. The reviews are already rolling in, a
So, the alternative for these fanbois are to buy an overpriced one from eBay, or take off work and camp out for two weeks.
Personally, I choose none of the above.
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It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers
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Fuck the fancy new toy. Go to Costa Rica or something.
Lines FTL (Score:5, Interesting)
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F'ing idiots... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd actually have more respect for these people if they said they'd be at home and masturbating continuously for the next 10 days.
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It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers
Take a pic on launch day... (Score:5, Funny)
"Someone went to Best Buy this morning and saw about 7 people waiting outside."
bud of jokes (Score:4, Funny)
Now is this a difference between the English and American languages, or can TFA not spell? On this side of the pond we'd talk about the butt of the joke.
(and then have a cup of tea).
How does this work (Score:5, Interesting)
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Considering that the preorders were sold out at everywhere that offered them within an extremely short amount of time, and that the quantities Sony is releasing are not large, I don't think it's that unrealistic.
There ARE people out there who really just have no lives. Hell, I work with someone who 100% WOULD be doing it if he didn't have the job, and even that is barely holding him back.
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Ok.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Either that or just stop acting like such a pathetic lame ass.
All i can say is WTF... (Score:3, Interesting)
But for me the logic doesnt work. I cant justify spending a week and a half out side of best buy for the "chance" to get a PS3. The only whay i would do it is if i was Garenteed to get one and ablr to sell it for more money than the lost days working. And at my salary good luck even at the vey bloated Pre PS3 sales happening on ebay right now. There going for at least $1500...
I fail to see why anyone sane would stand around outside for 10+ days waiting for a PS3 that they may or may not get unless that are hoping to make alot of money reselling it to someone else just as desprate to get one...
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These guys are paid to be there.
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I believe your table hogging analogy wrong. It is more along the lines of pre-allocating memory or fetching resources before you absolutely need them, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Put it this way, why buy the food if you can't get a table at which to eat it? And why queuue for hours and hours and hours and then *not* get a PS3 *if* you can
consuming waste (Score:5, Insightful)
Cunning Plan (Score:4, Funny)
But mom, I want it now! Ok, poopykins. (Score:5, Funny)
You insensitive clods (Score:3, Funny)
they'll be soooo disappointed (Score:3, Interesting)
They'll have the same games they bought before on their ps2, just much more expensive this time around.. Games WILL look great (as long as they have HDTVs) but, in all honesty I think it's going to crucify Sony... it's just such a pile of crap you wouldn't believe.. NO really, it just doesn't work the way you'd expect/want and when you factor in that SONY made it, not some junky two bit chinese company you've never heard of.. it's just shocking.
it's just so disappointing you won't believe it.
Sense of Accomplishment (Score:3, Insightful)
I understand now... (Score:3, Funny)
A lot of republican voters are in PS3 lines, which would explain the recent results in american politic...
Seems pretty simple... (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, I really want a PS3, but we already have a next-gen console out there which is finally getting some quality titles. I'll have no problems playing Gears of War for a month or two while it's hard to get my hands on a PS3. There really isn't anything that excites me about the PS3, well, until the next Gran Turismo comes out.
Begging to get mugged? (Score:4, Funny)
D&D in Line (Score:3, Interesting)
Paging Triumph the insult comic (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: they'll be soooo disappointed (Score:5, Insightful)
My disdain for your silly profession aside, why the fuck would you get your hands on a PS3, through work, as a hypnotherapist?
That... and I've already read a lot of hands on accounts of the PS3, from a multitude of sources, and none of them mention any of the supposed problems you speak of.