EUROPE AT WAR: BLUEWATER GAME RESORTS TO 'THE OLD SUM TOTAL' TRICK
Look, we’re not ‘all over’ Xbox 360 or anything, it’s just that Microsoft is doing such a solid, unremarkable job of it all that there’s nothing to hate.
Unless you work for GAME in the pikey shopping hell of the Bluewater Centre, that is, where they’re assuming people ‘know about’ and ‘care about’ HD movie formats:
Well done, idiots. You’ve made the one console people might actually be able to afford and want to buy sound a bit rubbish. So you won’t sell anything at all now. When did shops start being biased about the things they sell?
WHAT WE CAN ALSO INFER FROM THIS SIGN
They still have lots left no one wants The war’s getting dirty out there
Here’s a photo we just took in Tesco, where the ‘Apple War’ is in full flight. It looks rubbish because our phone camera isn’t very good at perspective.
filed in WAR ON PS3 on Mar.14, 2007
March 14th, 2007 on 3:40 pm
Does someone want to challenge the staff over the “Backwards compatible with all PS1 and PS2 games”, since that doesn’t apply here in the UK?
Make this a real war with a claim for false advertising.
March 14th, 2007 on 3:41 pm
“Fully backwards compatible with all PS1 and PS2 games”
LIES!!
March 14th, 2007 on 3:52 pm
Also, the 360 has had 1080p support since last November, if we’re quibbling.
March 14th, 2007 on 4:30 pm
They put that shit sign directly over Xbox 360 stock. The fuck?
Game, you shit, you sell both. Why try to fuck over the one with more peripherals and games that you can sell along with the console? Why try to fuck over anything you sell?
Idiots.
March 14th, 2007 on 4:48 pm
Wow, thats just wrong.
Oh and they are wrong on the backwards compatble thing for both consoles…
March 14th, 2007 on 6:58 pm
I can’t believe they’re still sticking to that “This is living” message moniker.
It’s so cheesy it’s embarrassing.
March 14th, 2007 on 7:23 pm
You’d have to be a fucking ponce to buy a PS3 because of it’s “internet browser to surf web”. So I think this advert is succesful given the demographic.
March 14th, 2007 on 7:57 pm
WOW!
Somebody is a real PS3fanboy there:-)
BC: LIE!
1080i:LIE!
do you guys think MS would sue them over this?
March 14th, 2007 on 8:23 pm
what a bunch of marmite miners. This obviously is their last attempt at trying to get people to preorder consoles.
I was buying some PS2 games yesterday from GAME in Birmingham, and the dude behind the counter asked me what I thought of the PS3.
Now, I’m not the sort of person who likes having conversations in game stores. I hate seeing little teens standing at the counters talking about how they can do 40 hit combo’s in real life and other bollocks like that.
Anyway, I grumble cuz I really don’t wanna conversation and tell him i’m not sure I want one. He then proceeds to pull out the reservation file and tell me that I can preorder one form £50, and when the day comes I can cancel it if I want to.
He then proceeds to ask me my details. I laugh at him, tell him to get my games and put away his forms.
He looks crushed.
I can only think PS3 pre-orders must be pretty dire.
March 14th, 2007 on 8:25 pm
Gah. I posted about that poster as a comment a few updates back. That’ll teach me not to carry around my camera taking photos of PS3 stuff in public and rushing home to email it to an online gaming blog.
March 14th, 2007 on 8:45 pm
Game has always been the home of smelly piss stained cunts. Who like pink.
March 14th, 2007 on 9:07 pm
PLEASE BUY THE PS3, WE ARE FUCKED IF YOU DON’T!
I received this lovely e-mail from Play:
http://content.imagesocket.com/images/playps342c.jpg
March 14th, 2007 on 10:32 pm
A mate of mine works for GAME and he recently told me his staff discount has been lessened as they ‘aren’t doing as well as they did in 2005.’ Maybe it is something to do with the fact they shaft you for prices? I used to work there too and what they do is put returned games back on the shelf. If a member of staff didn’t give a rats ass they’d return a game from a chavved up loser who’d only had 50 Cent’s wankstain of an effort of a game for 3 days before realising how shag it really was and somehow scratched it to buggery, perhaps by some weird sex ritual where their small scally genitalia are thrust through the centre of the DVD and then its humped against sandpaper or something, then the game would be put back in the cabinet behind the counter for resale. Very few games actually were returned as faulty.
I hate Sony more and more. I’ve not had one decent hardware product from them. MiniDisc player – broken. Hi-Fi – broken. Hell, I was on my second PS2 before my XBox 360. They just don’t get it. It’s like the marketing division realised their strongest brand was ‘some computer game thingy’ and tacked loads of pointless additions to it to justify the their £6000+ HD TV sets that will probably break just out of warranty like the rest of their shoddy goods.
March 14th, 2007 on 11:15 pm
How about a call to Kent Trading Standards tomorrow morning?
March 14th, 2007 on 11:47 pm
They forgot to point out that you need to buy a component or HDMI cable to even get the PS3 in high def, which automatically puts it over £425. Not to mention the 1080p and BC errors there.
Nor do they mention how you can get a 360 with an extra wireless controller, Gears of War, PGR3, and XBLA Unplugged for £329, and then use the £96 you’d save on buying a PS3 with no games to buy the superior versions of games like COD3 and F.E.A.R.
March 14th, 2007 on 11:48 pm
GAME are fucking arseholes. Literally.
March 14th, 2007 on 11:49 pm
GAME are fucking arseholes. Literally.
March 15th, 2007 on 12:11 am
Quite what GAME are thnking is beyond me. I’m sure MS will not be very happy to see this type of negative and somewhat false ad. It seems some desperate measures are being taken.
March 15th, 2007 on 12:48 am
To be fair, it’s the way GAME always works. I was in Braehead over Christmas and overheard some staff trying to get people to buy the Xbox 360 with Gears Of War by putting DOWN the PS3.
They only care about the NEXT current thing… They’re scum. They’ll screw anyone over if they think it’ll get them a sale.
But to lie so blatantly in written form makes me… sick!
Support your local independant retailer (or Argos who only sell factory sealed games).
And no-one pointed out yet that the 360 pads should be listed as “1 Wireless RUMBLING controller”.
Sony can smell my finger…
March 15th, 2007 on 12:53 am
Liam wrote:
I received this lovely e-mail from Play:
http://content.imagesocket.com/images/playps342c.jpg
I like the extra-desperate “Forward to a friend!” button at the bottom. They forgot to say “Please??!” though…
March 15th, 2007 on 1:49 am
Why didn’t they do this comparison when the PS2 came out!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????
Dreamcast with built in online capabilities – £99.99
PS2 without built in online capabilities and wank launch games – £299.99
March 15th, 2007 on 8:56 am
Someone should take that sign and smack the GAME manager around with the face with it until they realise the error of their ways.
March 15th, 2007 on 10:24 am
This is idiocy at its finest.
March 15th, 2007 on 10:30 am
That’s absolutely fucking disgusting. Somebody should inform Microsoft. I can’t believe a major retail outlet would be so insultingly biased – especially seeing as it’s wrong, with the BC issues and 1080p…
March 15th, 2007 on 11:02 am
It doesn’t even make sense. If you didn’t know much about either console and you read
“- £280
– Wireless network adapter
– HD DVD Drive
– £484″
You be pretty confused. What price is it then? It’s not like you normally use bullet points to list things a console doesn’t have in the same list that you’re using bullet points to list things it does have!!
March 15th, 2007 on 11:19 am
Amusingly, all the Google ads are now about pre-ordering and buying a PS3.
March 15th, 2007 on 1:35 pm
i wrote an email to kent trading standards haha, saying it was “misleading” and could they contact the store and ask them to remove it or ammend it… wonder will anything be done about it? :D
March 15th, 2007 on 1:46 pm
lmao what a comical piece of advertising
as people say they must be desperate as hell to do that shit
fully backwards compatible my ass ,shitty cables in the box ,and a pricetag to make even chris moylse’s belly quivver!
March 15th, 2007 on 2:23 pm
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23525
March 15th, 2007 on 2:29 pm
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23525
haha brilliant! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! and all that. UK:Resistance gives Sony another crushing blow!
March 15th, 2007 on 3:08 pm
It’s a bit moronic to say the least, some sales assistant trying to be clever, yet the internet will break him! In order:
Yes, the PS3 controller has wireless and motion sensing, but it doesn’t have rumble, why not add that to the 360’s controller?
Yep, the 360 has a component & composite lead, the PS3 (TRUE HD NOW ONLY ON PSFREE) only has composite.
The 360 also has Bluetooth, it’s just compatible with the controllers and headset.
It has a 30 day Live GOLD trial, not Live trial. Which is a service vastly superior to the PS3s (the one you pay for) with voice communication as standard.
LOL IT’S BLU-RAY, NOT BLUE!
360 also has 1080p.
It isn’t compatible with all PS2 games, LIES.
There is also free access to Xbox Live.
Who cares about a web browser? I have one on my phone, my Dreamcast and Wii, I don’t fucking use it.
It connects to the PSP, so? My penis connects to my 360 if I shoved it in the USB flap.
You aren’t forced to buy the wireless adapter (which is better than the wireless in the PS3), nor are you forced to buy a HD format that has a good chance of bombing. So really, the cost is £280 (plus whatever free games are being given with it this week), plus extras if you want them.
March 15th, 2007 on 4:51 pm
Slightly off topic but have you seen this?
“…police have had meetings with Sony and Virgin about how to handle the expected crowds…”
March 15th, 2007 on 5:24 pm
kotaku just stole this update, and its gotten more commments that this the original. Thats a crime as well.
March 15th, 2007 on 5:50 pm
loveboat that isn’t the best quote.
“In fairness, the store is meeting us half-way,” he said. “There won’t be any crowds on the street.”
I think that would be down to Sony, not the store! arf.
Word verification = ikhylrn
Make a good generator for names of characters in fantasy novels/games this would.
March 15th, 2007 on 8:13 pm
haha look at you raving fanboys, why don’t you get a life instead of whine, bitch and moan about a freaking toy!
March 15th, 2007 on 9:47 pm
@ Bob
Some people like to get down and dirty with current affairs. Others like to be oblivious to it all and wallow in ignorance.
Games machines are as much a toy as a football or a tennis racket. They all enable a person to have fun.
Back to the subject.
Game are total morons. The 360 makes them money, but they’re treating it like crap. Sony must be paying them a ridiculous amount of money.
March 16th, 2007 on 1:14 am
“Videogame web blogger killed by sacked shop assistant” ;)
March 16th, 2007 on 12:41 pm
LOL
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23525
March 20th, 2007 on 12:05 am
Do you all think this poster was written yesterday? Sony have only JUST announced the BC situation.
Microsoft kept the 1080i/p very quiet!!
Why does no one mention the fact that 40% of all 360’s suffer a ‘red light’ error within 1 week!!
Stop winging about a little poster that was designed to help show that PS3 is not ‘expensive’ it just costs a lot!