All of these for just a PS3?
One would think that the Holy Grail is up for sale.
The launch of gaming consoles seems to bring out a most bizarre side of human behaviour. Rarely is a product so coveted that man would be reduced to throngs of ant-like automatons, living and functioning only for one sole purpose above all else.
Last week's launch of the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) in the US, showed just how ridiculous it could get.
Some want the product for personal enjoyment. Others simply want to sell it for a hefty profit. Whatever the case, hardcore gamers and entrepreneurs across America braved bad weather and even heckling by passer-bys, to camp out in long queues outside electronic stores. With no guarantee they would even get one.
Sony only released 400, 000 units in the US and they were snapped up in next to no time. To ward off disgruntled customers and violence, stores sent out repeated notices of limited stocks.
But the crowd kept coming in droves. Since medieval times, mob mentality has always been a potent force. Except that now, the mob wants a state-of-the-art PS3 console.
Police were called in for crowd control as stores held midnight launches across America. One man was stabbed after he tried to rob two others of the consoles they had waited 36 hours for in Sullivan Indiana.
In Englewood Ohio, masked men stole five consoles at a game store after holding up the employees at gunpoint. In Pennsylvania, a teenager gave up his console to a man with a handgun.
The madness spread elsewhere and led to other forms of violence and mayhem. Buyers have to put up with hecklers, who fire BB pellets in drive-by shootings. Elsewhere in the America, gunmen tried robbing customers.
In Hartford Connecticut, thugs shot a man who refused to give up his money.
It seems even going out to buy a PS3 console is a hazard in the US. But the crush reinforces the success of Sony's gaming technology.
Sony Computer Entertainment America, told the Associated Press that even though the company has only managed to deliver limited supplies due to production glitches, and is doing its level best to replenish stocks, the crush of people clamouring to lay their hands on the console "kind of makes all the effort worth it".
The long awaited PS3 is supposedly Sony's panacea to a string of corporate follies that saw its shares plunge and reputation marred, by faulty laptop batteries prompting worldwide recalls in the past few months.
Sony hopes that the PS3 will help maintain its market lead in consoles, a pie that is being chomped away by rivals Microsoft and come-back hopeful, Nintendo.
The hype and insanity that its latest console has sparked looks like it might have just struck gold again.
CAn you believe this? it is not even like they are rushing for some survival products. what is the world coming to... or is it only americans?
The launch of gaming consoles seems to bring out a most bizarre side of human behaviour. Rarely is a product so coveted that man would be reduced to throngs of ant-like automatons, living and functioning only for one sole purpose above all else.
Last week's launch of the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) in the US, showed just how ridiculous it could get.
Some want the product for personal enjoyment. Others simply want to sell it for a hefty profit. Whatever the case, hardcore gamers and entrepreneurs across America braved bad weather and even heckling by passer-bys, to camp out in long queues outside electronic stores. With no guarantee they would even get one.
Sony only released 400, 000 units in the US and they were snapped up in next to no time. To ward off disgruntled customers and violence, stores sent out repeated notices of limited stocks.
But the crowd kept coming in droves. Since medieval times, mob mentality has always been a potent force. Except that now, the mob wants a state-of-the-art PS3 console.
Police were called in for crowd control as stores held midnight launches across America. One man was stabbed after he tried to rob two others of the consoles they had waited 36 hours for in Sullivan Indiana.
In Englewood Ohio, masked men stole five consoles at a game store after holding up the employees at gunpoint. In Pennsylvania, a teenager gave up his console to a man with a handgun.
The madness spread elsewhere and led to other forms of violence and mayhem. Buyers have to put up with hecklers, who fire BB pellets in drive-by shootings. Elsewhere in the America, gunmen tried robbing customers.
In Hartford Connecticut, thugs shot a man who refused to give up his money.
It seems even going out to buy a PS3 console is a hazard in the US. But the crush reinforces the success of Sony's gaming technology.
Sony Computer Entertainment America, told the Associated Press that even though the company has only managed to deliver limited supplies due to production glitches, and is doing its level best to replenish stocks, the crush of people clamouring to lay their hands on the console "kind of makes all the effort worth it".
The long awaited PS3 is supposedly Sony's panacea to a string of corporate follies that saw its shares plunge and reputation marred, by faulty laptop batteries prompting worldwide recalls in the past few months.
Sony hopes that the PS3 will help maintain its market lead in consoles, a pie that is being chomped away by rivals Microsoft and come-back hopeful, Nintendo.
The hype and insanity that its latest console has sparked looks like it might have just struck gold again.
CAn you believe this? it is not even like they are rushing for some survival products. what is the world coming to... or is it only americans?
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