EUROPE AT WAR: ZERO PS3 DEMAND – SHOPS CAN'T BE BOTHERED ANY MORE
HMV and GAME on London’s Oxford Street have both CANCELLED their midnight openings for PS3 launch day. Instead, GAME is offering free bacon sandwiches on the following Friday morning, while HMV has resorted to giving away 150 copies of Virtua Tennis 3.
Funny – usually console launches don’t require blatant bribery to get people to turn up and buy new consoles. Usually, there’s some sort of mad rush and excitement, not miserable staff in polo shirts handing out BACON SANDWICHES to tempt people in so they don’t get sacked.
Or go to Sainsburys, buy some bread and and some bacon and save yourself about 422 quid.
THE FACTS TO BACK THIS UP:
HMV CAN’T BE BOTHERED WITH PS3 GAME CAN’T BE BOTHERED EITHER, BUT IS AT LEAST MAKING UP AN EXCUSE
filed in WAR ON PS3 on Mar.20, 2007
March 20th, 2007 on 6:51 pm
All this, and Namco and Capcom can’t be bothered to make PS3 exclusives anymore.
March 20th, 2007 on 8:04 pm
I see cheese but no ketchup :(
Wouldn’t.
Oh… and Sony BOOO, Sega YAY. Nearly forgot where i was for a second.
March 20th, 2007 on 8:21 pm
Looks like Phil Harrison having been hit by a lift
March 20th, 2007 on 8:42 pm
Would.
And has anyone accessed the PS3 bc list yet? I want to see how disastrously pathetic it is:
http://faq.eu.playstation.com/bc
March 20th, 2007 on 9:18 pm
I’m vegetarian. What are they going to tempt me with? Ready Brek?
March 20th, 2007 on 10:45 pm
Vegetarians farts smell real bad btw.
I might go down to GAYME on Friday and get me some free breakfast, then walk out with a copy of Dead Rising and Lost Planet while muttering something about Capcom exclusives.
I will ask any of the customers there if they would like to watch me play while they eat their bacon buttys.
March 20th, 2007 on 11:57 pm
this is getting pathetic xD
March 20th, 2007 on 11:58 pm
well… more than it was hahahahaha
March 21st, 2007 on 4:02 am
Wow…
I’d turn up if there was free bacon roll. Thgat’s like what happens when I go and visit my gran!
Are these Bacon rolls dependant on you buying a PS3?
My gran never expects me to spend £425 for her bacon rolls… so I guess the compariosn ends there.
ON ANOTHER NOTE:
I was at the pub with a friend this evning and wihtout a not of irony he suggested that buying a PS3 at that price was the future of gaming *and* entertainment! So thir advertising and relentless bollocks has reached some people.
Despite the fact that he recenlty bought some form of top of the range mac book thingimajig, we tried to convince him to but a Wii or at least an Xbox360. He seemed unshaken.
He did reckon a WIi with a projector screen TV would be ‘the shit’ though.
This leads me to believe that certain cretins are only going to be happy not buying a PS3, unless they can spend an equivalent amount on other shit. PROJECTION SCREEN!
BUT IT’S GOT BLU-RAY!
March 21st, 2007 on 4:09 am
Excuse the spelling errors.
I’ve just got in from my local drinking establhishment. Where I drank some beer.
BUT!
Does anyone else have stories of cluelss chums who reckon PS3 is the future and that the price pretty much guarantees it’s awesome?
WHY! I almost said ‘Don’t you read UK:Resistance?’.
Instead I said ‘Don’t be a cunt!’.
I like to think I’m doing my bit for the cause.
March 21st, 2007 on 8:59 am
Didn’t realise GAME still did midnight launchs anyway, I had to wait til the morning with both the 360 and the Wii!
Which is why I’ve gone else where for a PS3
/ducks/
Please don’t hurt me ;o) Just want to see all the systems for myself
March 21st, 2007 on 9:08 am
I’m going to my local HMV at midnight to buy a Wii.
Verification word – zrdyt – A cleaning paste for pennies and other coins.
March 21st, 2007 on 9:18 am
A few days ago I saw an ebay auction by a guy who was selling several PS3’s – none of which had a current bid anywhere near the £425 mark. “Email me for a buy-it-now price” he said. So, for a laugh, I did.
The next day I got the reply. How much was he willing to part with one of his small collection of PS3’s for? What possible bargain price would he attempt to sucker me in with?
“£500 – delivered”, came the reply.
Now don’t get me wrong, I was never intending to buy one of these monstrosities in the first place, but as we all know we can just walk into a shop and buy one on Friday that means he’s going to be using a delivery method that costs £75.
Any ideas as to what delivery method this could be? Wishful thinking would lead me to believe that it could show up on Friday at midnight, being carried inside Linsay Lohan’s uterus and I’d have to go looking for it. Still wouldn’t be worth it though cuz I’d be stuck with a piece-of-shit PS3 once I’d finished.
March 21st, 2007 on 10:42 am
i can’t believe sega are “teaming up” with hmv and SONY to give away the virtua tennis games. TRAITORS!
March 21st, 2007 on 11:13 am
I’m vegetarian, so I’m immune to to their Jedi mind tricks. Well, except that bit about them having pastries, I’m not so immune to those.
Maybe for fun we can suggest that their attempts at trying to tempt bacon lovers is demonstrable proof of an anti-semitic agenda (rather apropos to UKR’s Europe at War theme) – one being driven by Sony’s (and therefore Axis powered) PS3.
“Vegetarians farts smell real bad btw.”
This is very true. In fact, I just positively affirmed that while writing the previous sentance.
Oh, and then again just now.
March 21st, 2007 on 12:00 pm
And now Devil May Cry 4 just jumped ship..that leaves MGS4 as the only reason left.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74331
March 21st, 2007 on 1:37 pm
Lol, I’ll queue up at GAME for one, then I’ll claim that i’m a Jewish Muslim and their offer has offended me and demand to get the PS3 for Free or i’ll go to the press/BBC Watchdog. ^_^
March 21st, 2007 on 2:45 pm
isnt a midnight launch a bit racist?
March 21st, 2007 on 3:01 pm
Dunno about racist but its definitely ageist!
March 21st, 2007 on 6:55 pm
I think you’ll all find the reason they’ve cancelled these grand events is because the crowds were going to be so big the police would have been unable to control the desperate masses.
March 21st, 2007 on 7:13 pm
“However, following consultation with the Metopolitan Police – and, given the high value of the PS3 consoles – GAME “has put its customers’ safety first” and made the decision to open the store at 7am on Friday (March 23rd). As the GAME statement points out, this will guarantee that gamers have access to public transport and can safely take their consoles home in daylight.”
Remember, they only come out in the dark – mostly.