June 16th, 2006
Talk About a Pre-Order … PS3 Being Sold Online Now
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Now this is a pre-pre-order. The Playstation 3 is not due out in Japan until Nov. 11, with the U.S. and Europe to follow on Nov. 17. Online site play.com is offering to take orders online from Europeans, right now.
The next generation consoles are on offer as “pre-orders” to Europeans for £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com. The website says that because of an expected European shortage, it cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas. The model for sale on play.com is the 60Gb model. When Sony announced prices earlier this year it said that gamers would pay about £425 ($785) in the UK for the top end version of the machine. Source: BBC News
We Say: Overpriced, even for early adopters? Hey, they can’t even guarantee delivery before Christmas, and I don’t think the games included (Formula One 06, flying game Warhawk and the karaoke-themed Singstar) are worth the extra cash.
Alice Adds: So let me get this straight: if I act now, I get to experience an expected shortage vs. an actual one, a non-existent console, no killer ap games, no hope of a pre-Christmas delivery, and a $1,020 price tag. Yeah, that sounds like a great deal. Thanks play.com. You’re all aces.
Unbelievable.
John says:
Moo says the cattle.
Of course a fool and his money are easily parted. And our little princess HAS to have her PS3 NOW DADDY!!!!!
If your an idiot to pay that much, ill sell you some beach front property on the Moon real cheap….
June 16th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
arvydee says:
unbelieveable. also that I cant spell unbeleivable (spell check?)
June 16th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Alice says:
Arggghh…haven’t gotten a spell check chiding in over a month. I slipped. Correcting now.
June 16th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
linedash says:
From a marketing perspective, its a clever move. Especially given the publicity they got in the Uk market ; even on the bbc news site (Anyone confirm if it made it onto the bbc news (tv)?)
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June 17th, 2006 at 3:40 am
Nick says:
Way too expensive.
June 17th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Scourge_78 says:
Those farkers cannot be serious. Poor dumba$$es who spend a lot of bucks to bullsh1t marketdroids.
June 17th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Ariel says:
Yes its a rip off.
But if your smart you’ll buy two and sell the second one for double!!
Free PS3:)
June 17th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
robbie says:
If anyone buys this mess of a console, you’re smoking some cheap crack. $1000+ for a console? Sorry. I buy myself a Wii console or Xbox360, 2 extra controllers and 3 games and a 7900GT GPU for my PC with money to spare to take the girlfriend to the show. Maybe some popcorn left over and a pepsi. I pass on this farse in a quick way.
June 17th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Steve from yellowstone says:
RAMON! Bring me an overpriced piece of shit.
June 18th, 2006 at 3:20 am
speed1001 says:
LMFAO @ Steve from Yellowstone.
I hope the PS3 has “You Sank My Pat Battleship”.
June 19th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Dario says:
Hello…. is ANYONE going to buy this console… anyone ….. Sony must be worried.
June 19th, 2006 at 8:19 am
BigDaddy says:
Microsoft has rattled Sony so bad they dont know which way is up..The market leader is clearly following the upstart…Sad to watch but ohhh so much fun. This PS3 is priced out of reach of 90% of the Sony fan boys anyway lol…Also if this PS3 breaks like a PS2 will the fan boys be able to replace it as often when its so expensive…I think not
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