Major games retailers have told MCV that they are desperately scrapping for PS3 units, but are resigned to the fact that immense demand will outweigh their initial allocation.
At midnight last night, SCEE confirmed that a million consoles would be made available for retail across PAL territories Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Australasia.
Amazon's console and video games manager James Schall told MCV: "No matter what number Sony decide to give us out of that one million, it won't be enough to supply for the demand out there, which we already know to be absolutely phenomenal. We're in discussions with them and obviously trying to get as many as is humanly possible.
"Our aim is to ensure customers aren't queuing and fighting in the cold, waiting to get their hands on units that don't exist. We want to provide a hassle-free shopping experience for the massive number of customers we're expecting to buy the PS3 from Amazon. We aim to rival the smooth way in which we handled the Wii launch."
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Even 10 years after release, Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online's player engagement has risen drastically compared to last year.
If you're replaying MGS1 in any of its available forms, you'll want to know how to unlock all the best items in the game!
did not they learn from US & japan?
everyone wanted one day 1, and by a month later, they were sitting on shelves and being returned, although europe won't have the advantage of there being a strong ebay demand since you can get one pretty much anywhere...
Americans got junk food stock up in their heads (no brain but a big mac) Japaneese will come around ;) EU is the land of the PS3.. and mather your bussinese kid your beloved console is out in 36 countries and nobody's buyin it..
And even in the U.S. it's not very popular. 5 million units in 14 months? Big deal. PS3 will probably trample over Microsoft's console within 4 or 5 months over in Europe.
It's important to remember that the really big titles aren't being released until up and around the European launch date. PS2 had a game drought, Xbox 360 had a game drought, and so does the PS3 at the moment.
out of interest does anyone know how many 360 were on sale at launch in comparison to ps3?
okay, well no wonder they we're sold out that's not a lot at all considering sony's ps3 launched with 250,000 and had 2million in circulation within 8 weeks. so to put it simply, the ps3 sold faster and more units then the 360 did when it launched.. i didn't know that... hmm.