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red37 wrote:

Bad Bob wrote:Yeah, I was watching some of the carnage on CNN this morning, mate.  It's ludicrous to see so many go so mental over a fecking gaming system.

Didn't realize anyone had been shot or had their prize stolen but there was one store in Wisconsin that had 10 units and about 100 prospective buyers.  The store's "solution"?  Encourage the lot of them to line up in a starting line fashion and sprint for the prizes.  Madness!  Wait a few weeks and buy it when the furor's died down, FFS.

i forgot you are on that side of the world Bob. wait til sunday then...when all the Nintendo fans are out en masse! dont know if there'll be any guns though....

early suggestions arent that exciting regarding one or two pieces ive read over the PS3 tonight. some are poking their heads tentatively above the parapit and drawing unfavourable comparisons against the '360' already.....expectations eh!

Never understood all the hype myself, Red.  I've got the old school X-Box and like it just fine but I wouldn't go ga-ga over anything as prosaic as a gaming system.  Some losers have WAY too much time on their hands and need to get a life (he types smugly, sitting in front of a computer screen on a Friday night! ).

The Manhattan Project wrote:I don't need to queue for a PS3 when it's released here in the UK, because my dad will nick one for me.

But you will do mister,cause i'll cut your dads arms off on his way to ya and take it all for Belfast!  

jkop wrote:All this madness for a game console, you wouldnt have seen this when the Sega megadrive first hit our stores.

You're right. You didn't need a gun in the old days. I just whacked someone with a crowbar to get mine.

The Ace1983 wrote:

jkop wrote:All this madness for a game console, you wouldnt have seen this when the Sega megadrive first hit our stores.

You're right. You didn't need a gun in the old days. I just whacked someone with a crowbar to get mine.

Sabre wrote:Bring back the ZX Spectrum, the best English invention in the history!!

the one with the rubbery keys?

red37 wrote:sorry but Sony must carry the can for this:



Short tempers, stampedes and guns marked the U.S. debut of the PlayStation 3. 

Two armed robbers approached a line of 20 people waiting outside a Wal-Mart store in Putnam, Connecticut. When Michael Penkala refused to give his money to the two gunmen, the assaulters shoot him.

Only 30 miles away, another buyer was robbed of his new PlayStation 3 just minutes after he bought it at a store in Manchester

AFP reports that on Wednesday police had to shut down a Wal-Mart store in the southern California city of Palmdale after a restless crowd of nearly 100 people turned rowdy.

CNN reports that in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a teenager was also robbed of his new PlayStation 3 by a man who tapped on his car window with a handgun and in Lexington, Kentucky, someone fired BB pellets from a passing vehicle at people waiting outside a Best Buy store.

The Associated Press got reports from police departments around the country informing similar situations; two people were arrested in Fresno, California, after a crowd trampled people in a parking lot. Two young men were assaulted in Sullivan, Indiana, by two teens after waiting for 36 hours at a Super Wal-Mart.

"They were unloading their PS3s from their car when two teens approached them carrying a chain and a tire iron and demanding their consoles", told Sullivan Police Chief David Story to AP.

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thats probably the tip of the iceberg, as reports are continuing to come in over the 'wire'. there are rumours of the consoles turning up already on Ebay, for thousands of $.  but, poor production policies have led to this panic for me. the UK have to wait til March 07 to get their hands on one and going by the hysteria surrounding the launch over the 'pond' that delay should ensure they have time to manufacture enough units to meet the demand across Europe. i say the word should with more than a little caution...then again this is the mighty Sony we are talking about...