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Evil Avatar is reporting that Gamestop and EB will not be taking PS3 pre-orders until October at the earliest, hoping to avoid another XBox 360 pre-order fiasco. From their post:
We recieved official word today from the GameStop tactical planning group that GameStop and EB Games locations will not be taking preorders until Early October for the Playstation 3. Obviously, I can't post links as it is all internal at this point, but other employees could back me up if they've seen this.It seems that they are going all out against a repeat of the 360 preorder issue, which of course GameStop and EB was blamed for... even though Microsoft had promised ten times what each store actually launched with. This seems to be the most fail-safe way, but I wonder how long any kind of "call list" might be by October. There are at least fifty people on our store's alone in May.
Makes perfect sense, given that there won't be more than a million consoles available at launch, worldwide. Better start practice swinging a bicycle chain into the meaty flesh of a ripe pumpkin, as that is an accurate simulacrum of what you're going to have to do to some dude's face if you want a PS3 on launch day. November's PS3 riots are going to make The Road Warrior look like The Wizard of Oz.
PS3 Pre-orders at GS/EB [Evil Avatar]
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