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Currys, the UKs biggest electronics retailer, is desperate to get pre-
orders sold!!!
The counter is, of course, that Sony has done the impossible and
supplied to meet demand. However, as any console veteran knows, if a
retailer is openly insisting it's staff try to sell more pre-orders
because they have not met their targets, then it's clearly a dud.
The PS3 will sell a few hundred thousand this friday, but after that,
sales will be sloooow.
Two bits of evidence:
1. A friend of mine put down a pre-order for a PS3, she doesn't even
know why - she just had a £50 off voucher from a catalogue shopping
company. She's going to cancel because she didn't realise it doesn't
'come with any games' and that she needs a high def TV to play Blu-Ray
movies, and to get the best out of the console.
2. The sole person at work to pre-order a Ps3 is going to return his
pre-order because he realised he just can't justify £425, and then
have to fork out another £40-80 for games. He doesn't even have a High
Def TV either.
3. My local BlockBusters is unable to shift them. They were asking me
why it's more expensive, and were confused about why the PS3 won't
play HD-DVDs, or the 360 HD-DVD player wont play Blu-Ray disks.
I'm willing to bet that 1000s of these so called 'highly anticipated'
pre-orders that Sony and it's minions boast about, are merely chavs
pre-ordering simply because it's a Playstration 3, and havent really
thought it through.
£500 for a PS3, HDMI cable, 2 games, well - that's a LOT of money.
In the same blockbusters, they are selling XBOX 360 core units with 1
game and a 64 mb memory unit. for £200. Essentially, it does the same
as a PS3 for most consumers, and they don't have to fork out nearly
£260 more. That can get you every AAA 360 game, some of which are on
discount/sale/classics lables.
Or you can buy an XBOX 360 HD-DVD player for £130 and 5 movies, and
VGA cable for 1080p. (Given that you have to pay £25 for a Blu-Ray
remote).
Simply put, once the fiasco that is the Playstation 3 launch is over,
there will be a lot of people wondering what they've just spent £425
on, realising they now need to spend another £600 on a new TV, and
another £10-20 on a HDMI cable, that half their PS2 games don't load,
and that after all that expense their friends £199 XBOX 360 has better
looking, amd more fun games.
The PS3 is DOOMED in Europe.