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Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful! Moron pre-orders PlayStation3, then sells it on Ebay for less than he paid for it. Other UK auctions are currently floudering, too.
I can't wait to read the Sony press release on Monday morning. It had better include a full and frank apology for the global disgrace that is Sony's current hardware scheme. Â
Here we are! The launch event starts now!
The excitement is amazing, the crowds... Â
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There are two people queuing for a PS3. The first one is a woman. All the other people in this picture are journalists and PR people who were probably expecting a better turn out, plus security guards who can't believe how easy the job is as all they have to do is take the names of a few meek writers who want to take photos for their blogs. Â
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 We didn't bother interviewing her, as she's obviously (a) a friend of someone at Sony, (b) a friend of someone at Virgin, (c) a COMPLETE F***ING LUNATIC, or (d) a homeless crack addict glad of a warm place to sleep tonight where she won't get raped. The rape will instead happen at midnight on Thursday when she hands over her credit card to buy a PS3.
UPDATE: We are reliably informed by a reporter friend that the second guy in the queue is "buying six to sell on Ebay". Worst. Idea. Ever.
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This man's filming the event! Â
This is what he's filming. He'll have to work one hell of an 'angle' to get something decent out of this embarrassing public cluster-f***.
I would imagine that there will indeed be some PS3s left over to buy this weekend. Bring a van, you can have 50,000 if you want. Â
In a nutshell - no one wants to launch games alongside PS3 and would rather wait until more than 6,400 people have bought one, so sales figures are only disastrous instead of VERY DISASTROUS:
Ubisoft and Vivendi have clearly realised the financial idiocy of spending loads of money bringing old Xbox 360 games we've already bought and played to a console no one's going to buy.
What's happened here is HMV had a meeting where questions like "S***! What can we do to shift some of these useless things no one wants?" were asked, then someone suggested doing a competition.
No one else had any better ideas, so they did a competition.
Never before has there been a better time to throw a bin through a shop window.
Source: UK Resistance
Amazingly, the blundering Sony sympathiser has even used the box - the box that says GEARS OF WAR on it - to illustrate PS3's upcoming flop war game Resistance.
Whether this is an evil wartime lie designed to trick people or simple stupidity on its part, the end result will be the same - no pre-orders. Well done on matching Sony's ineptitude, though.
Source : UK Resistance
This "last chance to order today" sign has been out for weeks. The collaborating SCUM at Virgin should be shot:
"Here is a picture of the hopelessly optimistic sign outside the Virgin Megastore on High Street Kensington. It was taken last Friday when I walked past on my way to Uni. It was up over a week before when I became the last person on earth to buy Animal Crossing: Wild World. It was up before that, when I got a copy of the DS Lite browser. I'm just listing this so you can have an idea of how much money I've spent NOT pre-ordering the PS3".
"When I went to pay, the guy asked me 'Had you considered pre-ordering a PS3?'. I replied, 'Only as some sort of nightmarish fantasy'. Let's face it, if you really want to beat up hookers with a baseball bat, Soho is only a 20 minute bus-ride away. The sign went up the day the PS3 was available for pre-order. I'm guessing that the main reason they haven't take it down yet is to save the trouble of having to put it back up the day before the PS3 is released".
Source : UK Resistance
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