There were, literally, no more than 120 queuing people inside, and half of them were journalists. No queues outside. And this was 11pm on the Official Midnight Launch night for all of central London. It was a disaster. Obviously we're bound to say that, but it was. Nobody was interested in the slightest. Today, we are proud to be British.
That's the queue. All of it. The phrase we want to use to describe the clear death of PlayStation is "seismic shift in the national psyche" but that might be a bit over the heads of the 20,000 Gamefaqs readers we've picked up in the last couple of weeks. To put it in simpler terms - "Ps3 is teh doomed".
The London launch also proved how old fashioned Sony's "lifestyle" approach is. 10 years ago, we'd have been wowed by a launch party which featured hired performers, a predictable selection of hip hop music being played too loud and an overly-enthusiastic MC trying to get people to sound excited. Now, though, it's just embarrassing.
A few more disinterested automatons, the last of a dying breed, trudge lifelessly toward the till because they think they have to. It is the same across all of Europe. Today, we have woken up to a better, brighter world. A GREAT DARKNESS HAS BEEN LIFTED FROM US ALL! Sony is over. More photos from the European night of GLORY soon.
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I asked some worker how many preorders they have made, and suddenly there were 4 desperate workers around me trying to "change my mind" about the console and make me see the "real value" of bluray and all the other shit.
I thought we would lose here in the portugal front, cause everyone here is a huge fan of playstation, but no. actually we won the battle and the war.
When the workers found out i was never to buy that shit, they said that was a normal work's day because they generally close at 23:00 and that day it was just one extra hour more... no big deal.
The only people inside were watching some kind of gig in the store.
check out Gamefront.de for an update on the launch party there.
http://www.gfdata.de/archiv03-2007-gamefront/2896.html
But their monolithic box of shit that was designed for the sole purpose of using moronic sheep to win a format that they started has bombed.
Is the prophecy true, that a white phoenix would rise in the year of 20 and the 9 to take back a crown it should never have lost, that a planet of rings and fire should return. That a prince of dreams and twilight would bring color to a sea of mediocrity.
10 years, ten...........long..........years.
GAME had a few left (well they wouldnt say more than that)
HMV had more than enough for the weekend
Argos had 36. Yes, 36
When we went in, there were a crown of people looking at the Xbox 360 and Wii, and playing the demo PS2. I almost felt sorry for the neglected PS3 in the corner. Almost.
I never did either of those things. Too much work.
And oh yeah, to 'do my bit'; Sainsbury's were advertising that they had PS3 stock over the Tannoy (yes Tannoy; we are at war you know), to hapless shoppers this evening. I've never heard them use the thing in that store before for anything other than trying to round up errant employees from their fag breaks/illicit shags in the store room, to get them back on the tills.
wpycnnfu - new tongue-in-cheek martial arts game for the Wii.
I was too overcome with apathy to even venture down and take some photos, thats dedication!
Even here in the country where every child and its sibling has a PSP it just won't move.
The bastards.
Although there's something in the back of my head that tells me it's because of the new Official PS3 magazine that's out.
Well, it's safe to say my Saturn and its 200 odd games have been avenged.
Clearly these are all hallmarks of a very successful launch. My prediction - a random Sony bloke in MCV next week bragging about how well the launch went, about how the PS3 is intended as an "expensive, aspirational product" (until it isn't) and about how they are in no hurry to slash the price (only to completely reverse his opinion on the latter just in time for Xmas).
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8290/0324071532gn4.jpg
I then went inside and looked at the demonstration:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3573/0324071546qg3.jpg
Notice how no ones even looking?.. this was during the peak of the day aswell, about 3pm!
One of the shop assistants then said to me "there only £425 you know!", my response "haha as if!".
WE WON!
knock yourself out :-p
People should respect the 360 more than ever now, and realise how good Microsoft has been to gamers over the past 5years.
I was never an MS fanboy, and I never will be because that would be stupid, but I do think MS and the 360 are the real console deal.
Sony and Nintendo need to die. Sony because they've always been evil, and Nintendo because all their creative juice has dried-up. :(
Brilliant.
This is Living!
Only a handfull of people showed up at stores in Austria, Friday morning (I counted 14 between 3 different stores). And no one was really impressed with F1 or Motorstorm on the in-store kiosks.
I also got 20 systems delivered so it's not like I didn't have enough of them. Damn things are taking up precious stock space.
=)
Well anyway this is great... i wish i had PS3 hating friends U_U
But instead of that i have 2 friends that love the ps3... and the others don't care about games....