I went to Best Buy last night to pick up the new Tenacious D CD, and arrived to witness a shanty town of college dropouts along the front of the store. I smugly smiled, knowing that I could drive home and sit in front of an equally powerful next-gen console that I've had for a year. This is in Pineville, NC, a suburb of Charlotte -- not NYC or Tokyo. Last night, it rained harder than I've ever heard, with winds that had to have topped 40 MPH. I thought about our concrete campers as I pulled the covers up to my neck in my dry king-size bed.

baggachipz wrote:

I went to Best Buy last night to pick up the new Tenacious D CD, and arrived to witness a shanty town of college dropouts along the front of the store. I smugly smiled, knowing that I could drive home and sit in front of an equally powerful next-gen console that I've had for a year. This is in Pineville, NC, a suburb of Charlotte -- not NYC or Tokyo. Last night, it rained harder than I've ever heard, with winds that had to have topped 40 MPH. I thought about our concrete campers as I pulled the covers up to my neck in my dry king-size bed.

And if the number of consoles is actually 140K, how many can that be per store.

I think there might be a few fisticuffs in the morning.

How can these people afford the PS3 since they obviously do not have jobs to be at?

If the people in PS3 lines riot, do you think the media will blame it on video games?

Elliottx wrote:

If the people in PS3 lines riot, do you think the media will blame it on video games?

Very good question and I'd say the answer is no. This senario could happen with any other technology so I doubt there will be much focus on that.

I was listening to the Adam Carolla show this morning on my way to school and he mentioned that his very hot assistant was going to a Best Buy somewhere in L.A. to get people out of the lines by offering sexual services.

Farscry wrote:

The real question is, would that offer be fulfilled?

Is the zoo turning you away again?

lunabean wrote:

I was listening to the Adam Carolla show this morning on my way to school and he mentioned that his very hot assistant was going to a Best Buy somewhere in L.A. to get people out of the lines by offering sexual services.

The real question is, would that offer be fulfilled?

A fight broke out at the Super Wal-Mart broke out in Palmdale in California when store employees decide to move the line from inside to outside.

According to a television station, a group of PS3 line-waiters got angry when they were told they could no longer wait inside a Wal-Mart for the PS3 and would have to go outside instead. The group ran through the store knocking everyone and everything in their path over.

Sheriff's deputies were called and the store temporarily shut down to restore order.

At a Wal-Mart in West Bend Wisconsin, a scuffle broke out among the approximately 60 people waiting in line for the store's allocation of 10 PlayStation 3 units. When the crowd found out the systems would be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, pushing and shoving broke out, sending one system hopeful face-first into a telephone pole. Police say an ambulance had to be called to the scene.