PS3 lines already forming in America

8 November 2006

Posted by:Ferry

Nine days until Sony’s PlayStation 3 launches in America, and lines are already forming. A CAG forumer 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. He immediately pondered: “Do these people have no lives?”

Of course the life of the waiting-in-line-for-almost-two-weeks PS3 fans isn’t made easier by a bunch of people coming to Best Buy and making funny remarks like: “I hope you guys brought enough food!” Another one said, “Where is the line for PS4? Is it on the other side?”
PS3 line BestBuy

I wonder what life would be like if you had almost two weeks to just wait and do nothing. Do they take a holiday for this, or are they unemployed, at least the latter would make some sense, they could sell their PS3 on eBay. But these seem like PS3 fanboys, and die-hard ones at that. Hopefully for them they won’t be disappointed on November 17.
PS3 lines BestBuy

And because those lines aren’t that interesting, we’ll add the two latest PS3 commercials for your viewing pleasure.

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Monique

This is just ridiculous to be waiting 10 days outside for a video game that has a overheating problem. These people must have no life and no jobs.
GamerG

Camp out for a week and make a $1000 profit on ebay, easy! Its not as stupid as it seems!
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GearsofWar

LMAO if the ps3 is a joke then why do the games look just as good if not better than most 360 titles out right now?
bottom line is who gives a shit if one has a better gpu or faster processing speed and all that BS. If the games look and play good then whats the problem?
Csmith

And what if there is only 6 PS3′s in stock?
In my experience Sony fans will queue and camp for anything, like metal dancemats 3 years back (True!)
CrispyBit

All I have to say is meh, Sony has been (for a while now) a total BS company that puts other companies out of business for political reasons (note that I wont even start about all the technical problems they’ve been having). PS3…..Pfffffft, check the specs, devs wont want to add the massive complexity of an asyncronous programming model to their already complex games. As for the profiteers, spend 500.00$ for a console, then add another 200.00$ for say 3 games and an extra controller and on top of that lose 7 days of work (counting weekends) figure minimum of 20.00$ an hour pay rate at 8 hours a day 20x8x7 = 1120.00$ so 500 + 200 + 1120 = 1820.00$ and round to 1900.00$ including taxes, hmmm so to make a 1000.00$ profit you would need to sell at 2900.00$?????? I dunno about you guys but 3000.00 would make my STi gain about 40 WHP and give a lot more pleasure than a PS3
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haha i like all these people talking bad about those waiting in line. No on to defend them because they ARE ALL IN LINE. haha im not getting one, to expensive
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Actually the BestBuys are supposed to get 100 PS3 per store for the launch.
psfreak

Okay, has this even been confirmed? After all, I can’t find mention of this anywhere else.

8 days … bunch of nutbags.
Stephen

Sony is going to sell a shitload of PS3s. The price tag could be 2 grand and they would still fly off the shelves. Remember when PS2 & Xbox came out? $300 US was a crazy amount of money to spend on a console then. But now, with inflation and the amazing technology that goes into these machines…500 bucks ain’t so bad.