TRYING TO BUY AN XBOX 360, IN LONDON, ON DECEMBER 28TH 2005
Well we had nothing else to do and there was nothing on TV apart from Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and some gardening...
...and it was still another seven days until we had to go back to work and we were already bored of life, the internet and Kate's Playground, so decided to GO OUTSIDE and see if anywhere in fashionable London had Xbox 360s in stock. If they do, we're getting one. For Geometry Wars, and Xbox 360's other entertaining launch game -- Setting Up Your Wireless Network.
Our best score on Setting Up Your Wireless Network is 42 minutes! Setting Up Your Wireless Network comes free on every Xbox 360!
Anyway. This is GAME in Oxford Street. You can see two things (1) They have no Xbox 360s, and (2) they're trying to charge fifty quid for Quake 4 for no one to buy because they haven't got an Xbox 360 to play it on. That's very optimistic of them.
This is HMV in Oxford Street. It's where people like us go to buy things we want. It's HUGE and sells EVERYTHING you could ever need. It's the shop that always opens at midnight when games launch. It is the THE official shop of men in London.
Except it hasn't got any Xbox 360s. This is REALLY BAD.
This made us happy though! Ha ha! Stupid Sony fucks! It's not just Microsoft that can't get its most important thing, ever, into the shops for when people want to buy it.
This is GAME in Canary Wharf. Canary Wharf is London's new financial district, full of posh buildings and businessmen in suits. The sort of men who would happily spunk away three hundred quid on an Xbox 360 in their lunch break. Only they can't, because they're all out of stock here too.
FAT OR PREGNANT? For about three years, ever since first getting a phone with a camera on, we've had the idea of doing "FAT OR PREGNANT?" -- a joke quiz about whether women we see on the London Underground system are pregnant, or just fat. The reason behind this is this. If she is PREGNANT, then OF COURSE we'll give up our seat to let her sit down. We are gentlemanly like that, despite how it seems on the internet.
If, however, she's JUST A BIT FAT, offering her a seat would horrify the poor woman who would think she's so FAT AND DISGUSTING that she looks pregnant. She'd be devastated, her self confidence would be SHATTERED and she'd probably go home and cry and comfort eat, which would make things even worse. That's a dilemma we face almost once a week because we get on the train at a part of the line where you usually always get a seat going home. So, is she FAT and therefore the standing up is probably doing her good, or is she PREGNANT and are we being a bastard in not offering up our seat? It's hard being a modern man and having to sometimes worry about women's feelings :(
This is Computer Exchange. We were going to describe Computer Exchange as "where heroin addicts go to sell mobile phones and laptops they've stolen off businessmen" but that might be libellous, so instead we'll say it's where people go to exchange secondhand games for money and other games and hardware. Here, a SECONDHAND CORE PACK costs you THREE HUNDRED POUNDS! In American, that's 527 US dollars or, to put in another way, BLATANT PROFITEERING!
Incredibly, we went back to CEX on December 30, and they'd whacked the price up to 325 quid! It's more proof that the only winners in the Xbox 360 launch are the people that bought ones to sell on at a profit. Sorry the photo's a bit blurry, it's because our shoulders were HEAVING WITH LAUGHTER.
And now the Virgin Megastore. No Xbox 360s. The man on the till said "February mate" when we asked if they had any.
They haven't even got the high-def cables. Not that we need one, apart from to hang ourselves with to escape the boredom.
Oh god. Even on December 28 the shops are gearing up for the next event where we have to spend lots of money buying things for people we don't like :(
Anyway, so we went home and spent the evening of December 28 2005 watching the Tomb Raider movie, having failed to find an Xbox 360 to buy in all of London. After Tomb Raider finished we had a wank and some mince pies. Or some mince pies and a wank, it's a bit of a blur.
These are the mince pies. If you want to see photos of the wank, email in and ask.
THE SUMMARY
You couldn't buy an Xbox 360 in the most popular bits of London on December 28 2005. Which is pretty bad when you think about how important it is, and how the machine supposedly "launched" five weeks ago. It's the worst hardware launch ever! Looks like lots of people will be waiting for PlayStation3 or Nintendo Revolution, not out of choice but out of necessity, thanks to Microsoft's over-ambition.
...and it was still another seven days until we had to go back to work and we were already bored of life, the internet and Kate's Playground, so decided to GO OUTSIDE and see if anywhere in fashionable London had Xbox 360s in stock. If they do, we're getting one. For Geometry Wars, and Xbox 360's other entertaining launch game -- Setting Up Your Wireless Network.
Our best score on Setting Up Your Wireless Network is 42 minutes! Setting Up Your Wireless Network comes free on every Xbox 360!
Anyway. This is GAME in Oxford Street. You can see two things (1) They have no Xbox 360s, and (2) they're trying to charge fifty quid for Quake 4 for no one to buy because they haven't got an Xbox 360 to play it on. That's very optimistic of them.
This is HMV in Oxford Street. It's where people like us go to buy things we want. It's HUGE and sells EVERYTHING you could ever need. It's the shop that always opens at midnight when games launch. It is the THE official shop of men in London.
Except it hasn't got any Xbox 360s. This is REALLY BAD.
This made us happy though! Ha ha! Stupid Sony fucks! It's not just Microsoft that can't get its most important thing, ever, into the shops for when people want to buy it.
This is GAME in Canary Wharf. Canary Wharf is London's new financial district, full of posh buildings and businessmen in suits. The sort of men who would happily spunk away three hundred quid on an Xbox 360 in their lunch break. Only they can't, because they're all out of stock here too.
FAT OR PREGNANT? For about three years, ever since first getting a phone with a camera on, we've had the idea of doing "FAT OR PREGNANT?" -- a joke quiz about whether women we see on the London Underground system are pregnant, or just fat. The reason behind this is this. If she is PREGNANT, then OF COURSE we'll give up our seat to let her sit down. We are gentlemanly like that, despite how it seems on the internet.
If, however, she's JUST A BIT FAT, offering her a seat would horrify the poor woman who would think she's so FAT AND DISGUSTING that she looks pregnant. She'd be devastated, her self confidence would be SHATTERED and she'd probably go home and cry and comfort eat, which would make things even worse. That's a dilemma we face almost once a week because we get on the train at a part of the line where you usually always get a seat going home. So, is she FAT and therefore the standing up is probably doing her good, or is she PREGNANT and are we being a bastard in not offering up our seat? It's hard being a modern man and having to sometimes worry about women's feelings :(
This is Computer Exchange. We were going to describe Computer Exchange as "where heroin addicts go to sell mobile phones and laptops they've stolen off businessmen" but that might be libellous, so instead we'll say it's where people go to exchange secondhand games for money and other games and hardware. Here, a SECONDHAND CORE PACK costs you THREE HUNDRED POUNDS! In American, that's 527 US dollars or, to put in another way, BLATANT PROFITEERING!
Incredibly, we went back to CEX on December 30, and they'd whacked the price up to 325 quid! It's more proof that the only winners in the Xbox 360 launch are the people that bought ones to sell on at a profit. Sorry the photo's a bit blurry, it's because our shoulders were HEAVING WITH LAUGHTER.
And now the Virgin Megastore. No Xbox 360s. The man on the till said "February mate" when we asked if they had any.
They haven't even got the high-def cables. Not that we need one, apart from to hang ourselves with to escape the boredom.
Oh god. Even on December 28 the shops are gearing up for the next event where we have to spend lots of money buying things for people we don't like :(
Anyway, so we went home and spent the evening of December 28 2005 watching the Tomb Raider movie, having failed to find an Xbox 360 to buy in all of London. After Tomb Raider finished we had a wank and some mince pies. Or some mince pies and a wank, it's a bit of a blur.
These are the mince pies. If you want to see photos of the wank, email in and ask.
THE SUMMARY
You couldn't buy an Xbox 360 in the most popular bits of London on December 28 2005. Which is pretty bad when you think about how important it is, and how the machine supposedly "launched" five weeks ago. It's the worst hardware launch ever! Looks like lots of people will be waiting for PlayStation3 or Nintendo Revolution, not out of choice but out of necessity, thanks to Microsoft's over-ambition.
Labels: GONZO
Posted by Cmdr_Zorg 1/04/2006 02:05:00 PM
16 Comments:
Good post. The whole situation is pretty stupid. People should learn to be less stupid and not buy a console at launch... Also to not buy an Xbox 360.
Spoken like a true Sony fanboy Son_et_lumiere!
no i think he's not a fanboy of anything. maybe he is just an anti microsoft.
oh wait, does this mean he could be an Apple fanboy ?
I'm anti-Micro$oft (see, I can write like a true hax0r too), but I'm no apple fan-boy.
And Zorg, I dare you to post your wank pictures - you may get some extra traffic from the "adventurous metrosexuals" we have all come to HATE.
I haven't really got photos of me wanking, that was just using "artistic license" to paint a picture in the minds of the readers. AS YOU WELL KNOW.
CAN WE HAVE THE PHOTOS OF YOU WAN . . .
Oh
:(
According to my girlfriend, the Virgin Megastore on the King's Road had Xbox 360 core systems for sale on December 28th.
according to my girlfriend, she's the only woman in the world that gives blowjobs.
You could also describe the Computer Exchange as: "Where reviews editors of tech magazines raise money to pay for holidays/cars/prostitutes by flogging review kit that the manufacturers gave them to keep (or at least, review kit the PR company forgot to collect and has been sat under your desk for three months now, so it's probably safe to sell without getting into trouble...)"
Yeah, i'm not a Sony or Apple fanboy, I like Nintendo and Sega. PC stuff too.
I work at GAME and we're getting some of them Premium systems in next week, so the tosser who said February was either:
a) lying
or
b) stupid.
Just a thought - If Cmdr Zorg really does have photos of himself wanking (which I'm inclined to think he does) - who held the camera? Oh wait, most have a self shoot mode don't they...?...aaaaand now I'm worrying myself
TV program : "Gardener of the year 2005". So THAT's brit TV... The myth of some 24/7 broadcasts of Flying Circus and UK rock music videos and Wallace and Gromit - all of it plugged in by page 3 ladies - is shattered.
tomleecee:
who the fuck wanks with two hands? are you carrying some form of giant redwood around between your legs?
tentonipete:
An extremely valid point very well made - but having never tried to take pictures of myself tugging, it had completely slipped my mind that you dont, as you so subtley suggest, require two hands to wank.
^^haha the discussion went from not being able to buy a 360 to how many hands does it take to wank.. Yeah MS really messed up the launch
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