Post by: Zach on April 30, 2006, 10:29:47 AM
A customer was asking about the xbox 360, and the PS3, and the employee actually seemed pretty knowlegeable (perhaps just because the person didnt ask about the GC or Wii). Anyway, when the customer asked about the PS3, and pre-orders, the worker said that Sony wasnt going to ship a lot of units (he might have said about half a million, but Im not sure) and they might not even do pre-orders because they'll only get about 3 or 4. Keep in mind this is the gamestop in a major mall, if they are only getting 3 or 4 PS3s than I wonder how many units will be going to smaller places.
Post by: Kairon on April 30, 2006, 10:39:36 AM
Sony has gone on record that they intend to ship 1 million PS3's each month, with an extra million the first month, so that between the November launch and March 2007 there will be 6 million PS3's worldwide.
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Post by: Arbok on April 30, 2006, 11:18:25 AM
Post by: UniversalJuan on April 30, 2006, 12:13:36 PM
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Never trust a Gamestop employee, nuff said. Just the other day I had one tell me how the Revolution (Wii not widespread yet, thankfully) was going to play all previous Nintendo and Sega systems, naming off things like the Dreamcast.
As a Senior Game Advisor at at GameStop around here I take a bit of offense to tihs. It seriously depends on which ones you go to. And that's, nuff said.
Post by: Arbok on April 30, 2006, 12:29:38 PM
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As a Senior Game Advisor at at GameStop around here I take a bit of offense to tihs. It seriously depends on which ones you go to. And that's, nuff said.
It has been my experience at all GameStop and EB locations. If there are some out there that go against this norm, then there are, but I no longer take the time to put much faith in anything said by them going from past conversations. Furthermore, I certainly would never take something they said as fact if there weren't sources on the internet I could find to back up their claim, nor do I want to go through the effort of searching out each one of their bogus tidpits.
Post by: Zach on April 30, 2006, 01:05:59 PM
Post by: BigJim on April 30, 2006, 01:51:20 PM
The system seems too complex and expensive to pull off what would essentially be the largest high-end consumer electronic product launch of all time. I'm slightly pessimistic.
Post by: ThePerm on April 30, 2006, 02:49:33 PM
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Post by: Djunknown on April 30, 2006, 07:05:29 PM
I frequented some Gamestops (and EB) where the staff was pretty cool. Others were damn near hostile. Some seem to have a high turnover rate as well...
On topic, I'd be cautious with what they're saying. I remember I was at a EB waiting for service, when the sales clerk was convincing a buyer to buy a core 360 since they were out of the premiumum ones. He spouted how the hard drives would be sold individually, and that bigger capacity drives would come later this year. Yet he spouted this as fact. So far, Microsoft hasn't made an official announcement... How'd this guy know?
So yeah, watch those pre-order deals. Who knows, maybe Sony will have a preferred retailer like Microsoft did; you might get a better chance to get it there.
Post by: KDR_11k on April 30, 2006, 08:11:27 PM
Post by: couchmonkey on May 01, 2006, 06:30:16 AM
Will Sony have problems? I don't know, I mean the company has been working on the system for quite a while. I get the feeling it's a lot further along at this point than Xbox 360 was a year ago. When 360 was first being shown, a lot of the games looked so-so, and most of the software seemed to still be early on in development. PS3 stuff seems to have been in development for a year already, maybe longer...however, Sony is trying to pull of a couple of new technologies, so a shortage is definitely possible. Especially with Sony being the the current market leader.
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on May 01, 2006, 08:20:03 PM
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Post by: KDR_11k on May 02, 2006, 06:41:33 AM
Post by: Arbok on May 02, 2006, 10:14:17 AM
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Knowing the gaming press they are more interested in Halo 3 than any new games.
I don't know, I think the next GTA could make larger waves depending on what would be revealed.
Post by: Zach on May 09, 2006, 08:18:42 PM
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my boss just informed me that he heard a rumor from the guys at gamestop and eb in our area that ps3 will not be done with preorders and there will only be 2 million at launch for the entire world....
which means that our store would only get 1 or 2...."
So either this is an amazing coincidence, or the computers at all the GameStops are wrong, OR this rumour might have some merit after all.
Edit: IVE BEEN BRAINWASHED, FOR SOME REASON I TYPED THE WORD RUMOR THE WAY THE BRITISH DO!!!!
GET OUT OF MY HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!
Post by: TrueNerd on May 09, 2006, 11:45:54 PM
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