2013-11-30, 19:11 | Link #1381 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Biggest difference in terms of PS4 releases: at least there was some order in the United States (at least in terms of the Gamestop where I picked up my PS4).
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2013-11-30, 19:55 | Link #1383 | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Dollars
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Some of those comments are hilarious
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2013-11-30, 21:58 | Link #1384 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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I can only guess that those 50 people didn't pick up their console earlier might have been either, that they didnt have enough money at the time, or to avoid a long line. Seems like that didn't work out that well, well at least it wasn't launch day. I bought my PS4 about six days after it was released at my local Best Buy (8 day hold on pre-orders) thanks to me having my reserve. I did this just to avoid the chaos. |
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2013-11-30, 22:36 | Link #1385 | |
Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
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The area I live in is small and seldom do I find chaos like that. Even when Battlefield and Call of Duty release, it wasn't even a third of the chaos of the PS4. I have never seen chaos for a gaming system that has a line extending all the way to the food court. |
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2013-12-01, 00:26 | Link #1386 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Plus just because they may not be holding a preoder slip, doesn't mean they may not have one. It could in their wallet, or in safe place on their being. It also quite possible that they lost/misplaced it or just didn't bring it with them. Since usually with a preoder you just have to provide your name and phone number, and if you have an account with them it also makes it more easier to just go paperless sometimes. Then for pick up just provide valid identification stating you who you are and your good. I had the issue of not being able to find my preoder slip, that I had to get the employee at customer service to extract my order from their system and since I an account with their rewards program it was easy. All I had to do was provided my number and valid identification and I was done. It toke only less than 5 minutes to do it. As for the chaos it was unfortunately bound to happen with amount of hype that was building up. Part of it was Sony's fault and a lot of other people who just joined hype-bandwagon just because they felt like it or just got swayed into. This level of hype build up is what that I truly dislike about, cause sometimes its taken to the next level by some, it become a real mood killer for me. I'll tell you this much, the smart ones/victors were the ones that didn't fall victim to the hype, which sometimes leads impulse buys. But to those who decided to wait this one through, they are real winners. Oh one more thing, I see two other things in here (with the white Xbox ONE) can you make it out? http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...85848295-1.jpg Last edited by ScorchingFlames; 2013-12-01 at 00:49. |
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2013-12-01, 07:35 | Link #1387 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
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I hear you could make a pretty nice profit reselling them on Ebay yesterday.
A friend of mine made 150€ selling his (preordered) PS4, but he said the price went up to 800€-1000€ in the course of the evening (he sold too early )... So if you think of it as a pile of MONEY free for grabs instead of just consoles, it makes a lot more sense what they are doing. |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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2013-12-01, 16:45 | Link #1393 | |
Honya-kun
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
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1. Arrive by 6:00PM to finish up paying for the system (or for those who haven't reserve it, buy one of the leftover systems) and get a number for when they line up later in the night; 2. Kill a few hours doing other activities (in my case, I celebrated my 33rd birthday); 3. Return to the store around 11:30PM to line-up for the system pick-up. 4. At 12:01AM, ten customers were allowed at the store at a time to pick up the system without a hassle. Definitely more organized (and much less of a bloodbath) than those EU images that were in the neogaf thread.
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2013-12-02, 09:26 | Link #1400 |
dn ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northern Ireland
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The stock levels for stores in the UK of the PS4 is much higher than the xbox one which is probably why its sold more units. I work in the game retail business and throughout our entire company we where not even given enough xbox ones to meet our pre-orders (1200 units between 700 stores), where as with the ps4 we where supplied more stock so we where able to sell units outside of pre-order stock threshold.
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