ToneKnee Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 ****ing ######. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 heh, with this kinda hype they're saying alot of people it saying it's going to flop ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentMage Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Wow. Someone must've told the people in the back of the line that the store they were in line for only had 10 or 15 PS3's available or something. But still... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Just like a bunch of lemmings...only no cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealthy_Singh Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Just like a bunch of lemmings...only no cliff. Lemmings don't walk off cliffs. Thats a fallacy perpertrated by games manufacturers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodel Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 lol, of course Nick Mata was 1st in line, he's a beast. These PS3 lines are getting out of hand though, muggings, shootings, riots.... did any of this happen in Japan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted November 17, 2006 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2006 (edited) Survival of the fittest over a video game? Society is doomed. Good on the Japanese for showing class. Edit: First, there was the riot. Play was originally no more than 100 spaces behind in the line, paying no attention to police barking false claims that "construction" was about to begin, and everyone should please skedaddle. The throng rapidly became unruly, and around 10:30PM all hell suddenly broke loose. It was a stampede, hundreds of people rushing for the entrance to Yodobashi, likely the result of a simple misunderstanding. The push of the crowd was unreal. Rows of bicycles, scooters and motorcycles could be seen columnating, collapsing domino-style through peripheral vision. Backpacks and jackets were being trampled underfoot. Harried hollers of "we're not selling any PlayStation 3s today!" could be heard, as the hive-mind of the PS3-hungry horde hurtled hence towards their wholly unknown goal. - http://playmagazine.com/index.php?fuseacti...mp;Japan_ID=121[Threads Merged] Edited November 17, 2006 by Fred Derf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted November 17, 2006 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2006 How many X360s were available at LAUNCH? Our Best Buy had 280 or something like that. I was 130 something in line for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Seetheworldsecond Subscriber¹ Posted November 17, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted November 17, 2006 This is what happens when the demand is greater then Sony can supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted November 17, 2006 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2006 If Sony doesn't give the guy who was shot a free PS3 then they are truly a heartless company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I wouldn't go that far, FD, I mean, I don't like Sony, but it's not their fault some people are truly idiots (talking about the guy with the gun, not the one that got shot). It would be awfully nice of them, and therefore, I wouldn't expect it. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scumdogmillionaire Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Our Best Buy had 280 or something like that. I was 130 something in line for that one. do MS employee's not get first dibs on stuff like that? surely you guys get benefits beyond the project you're working in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 It seems the users on Digg.com find this funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scumdogmillionaire Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 It seems the users on Digg.com find this funny... It is funny. Terrorist want to kill americans but we're doing it for them ourselves. Over video games no less. We make ourselves look like idiots. It's ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodel Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 It's all going off in PS3 lines it seems. PS3 Line Insanity; Pregnant Woman Tries Not To Give Birth While Waiting Escaped rape suspect arrested at Best Buy in PS3 line PS3 Midnight launch attenders get stalked, and cars broken into Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted November 17, 2006 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2006 I wouldn't go that far, FD, I mean, I don't like Sony, but it's not their fault some people are truly idiots (talking about the guy with the gun, not the one that got shot). It would be awfully nice of them, and therefore, I wouldn't expect it. You could argue that it was partially their fault. They could have delayed the launch until they had sufficient inventory. Some people were predicting riots like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentMage Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 This comprehensive article from CNN seems to sum up today's events related to the PS3 launch: Robbers prey on Playstation 3 buyers Here are some excerpts: ...another shopper was beaten and robbed of his new PlayStation 3 just minutes after he bought it at a store in Manchester, police said.The shopper told police five men surrounded and beat him as he left the Shoppes at Buckland Hills with the new PlayStation. Two people were arrested in Fresno, California, after a crowd trampled people in a parking lot. In Sullivan, Indiana, a man was in critical condition after emergency surgery for a stab wound after he and a friend tried to rob two men of consoles they waited 36 hours in line to buy, police said.Andrew Templeton, 20, and David Wiggins, 28, of Sullivan, Indiana, were assaulted by two teens after waiting for 36 hours at a Super Wal-Mart, police said. They were unloading their PlayStation 3s from their car when two teens approached them carrying a chain and a tire iron and demanding their consoles, said Sullivan Police Chief David Story. Police fired a talcum powder ball at the ground outside a Target store in Henrico, Virginia, to get the attention of an unruly crowd of about 350 people who were waiting to buy one of the shop's eight consoles, police said. Do you think that now we've gotten past launch day that events like this being tied to the PS3 will end? I seriously hope so because this is really messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nid~vaeda Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Lemmings don't walk off cliffs. Thats a fallacy perpertrated by games manufacturers! Actually it all started when disney made a documentary where the host and crew chased lemmings off of a cliff to make it interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Sad thing is only one got shot. Ok that was lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Anthony Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 A man was also shot and killed by 5 people when he refused to give up his PS3 after coming back from Wal-Mart. :no: This country is really starting to scare me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Our Best Buy had 280 or something like that. I was 130 something in line for that one. nah, I mean in all of north america and the worldwide.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Very sad, very! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 In further news of the destruction that the release of the Playstation 3 is causing around the world (or the bits of it where they've released the Playstation 3), several people were injured and one had to be taken to hospital after a shop made customers play a musical chairs-style game for the priviledge of buying one. Faced with the problem of 50 impatient customers outside his Wal-Mart store in West Bend, Wisconsin, and only 10 Playstation 3s in stock, the assistant manager of the store hit upon a plan that could not possibly go wrong in any way whatsoever. He lined ten chairs up outside the store, sending the customers off to stand in a different area. When he gave the signal, the customers were to make a dash for the chairs, and the ten who ended up sitting on the chairs would be allowed to buy the consoles. :huh: Good plan. In the free-for-all that followed, one 19-year-old had to be taken to hospital after he ran into a flagpole and dislocated his jaw. Several other customers also received minor injuries. One customer, Brad Smith, told local TV station TMJ4: 'People were basically running and trampling each other to get in line. And once we were in line, people were sitting on each other trying to get the seats out from underneath the people.' One of the successful ten, Chris Friedrich, said: 'I got tripped up and I got pushed and shoved right into my chair. I banged up my knee, ripped my pants and somebody landed right on top of me. I actually had to pull that person off of me.' :| The man who dislocated his jaw is reported to have hired a lawyer, and plans to sue Wal-Mart. :laugh: source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 That's my home town for ya. :D Smart people around here. Wish I wouldnt have been in college that day. My 11.0s 100m might have paid off for something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3nuo Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The man who dislocated his jaw is reported to have hired a lawyer, and plans to sue Wal-Mart. :laugh: source this goes along the lines of that dude who fell on a knife whilst breaking into a home, suing, and winning. I mean sure, the whole 10-chair thing was a retarded idea.. but its not like they were held at gunpoint to participate. "oh noes, in my idiotic attempt to snatch a piece of crap PS3, i, for just an instant, disregarded the visual feed into my brain which clearly showed a huge flagpole about to smack me in my face, which landed me in the hospital. in attempt to draw attention off myself for being idiotic and resorting to such retarded measures to get a PS3 which sucks bawls, as well as looking retarded for neglecting my eyesight, i shall be suing the business that i was located on the grounds of" i hope this doofus loses in court and is left with some pretty legal fees, and a slack jaw. it's sad to see the true side of people when they act upon the temptation caused by the many lies sony has fed into their minds about how FLIPPIN AWESOME the PS3 is and even tho it's $600 and a overheating POS, it's worth looking like a retard, pushing fellow man down in the process just to get their greedy little hands on the thing. meh, gotta love society as it is known today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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