Aus PS3 launch, "underwhelming"
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You either took all the time to search EBGames.com for a customer comment by Freaky_1 or you took the time to register Freaky_1's name at that site and made that comment yourself. Look at the date of the comment. Suspect...and sad, very fuckin sad. You must really be mad at some of the shit he says on BGOL.matt357 said:Somebody here seems to have a PS3 here, but seems to be trying to fit in with the gang
Rocky Miavia said:You either took all the time to search EBGames.com for a customer comment by Freaky_1 or you took the time to register Freaky_1's name at that site and made that comment yourself. Look at the date of the comment. Suspect...and sad, very fuckin sad.
you see the damn date on that ass
the bitch is a fraud, what do they say ?
mosts times when someone bash something that means u got it right?
don't defend him he owned his own ass
You're not really that dumb that you'd believe anyone believes that was the real Freaky_1 and not you who made that comment on EBGames.com?matt357 said:you see the damn date on that ass
the bitch is a fraud, what do they say ?
mosts times when someone bash something that means u got it right?
don't defend him he owned his own ass
I don't need to defend him. That EBGames bullshit was lame and desperate.
Rocky Miavia said:You're not really that dumb that you'd believe anyone believes that was the real Freaky_1 and not you who made that comment on EBGames.com?
I don't need to defend him. That EBGames bullshit was lame and desperate.
bitch please..if that pikestreet or some shit you'd have a field day..go post about asians and ant games a fuck off...
defending his ass.. YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH
if that would've been me or somebody i'd have to get a lawyer to clear my name but b/c its one of your boys you gotta go that route..
U Mad? 
matt357 said:Somebody here seems to have a PS3 here, but seems to be trying to fit in with the gang
You have stooped to a new low MAtt..... I guess you ran out of bullshit articles to post, come on how would you expect anyone to think dude posted that. Freaky must have really got under your skin 
the shit is there plain and simple..i'm not about to argue with all your sony hatin asses..plain and simple
No need to argue. Everybody sees that you own3d yourself by posing as Freaky_1 on EBGames.matt357 said:
WOW! Anybody that knows me on this board knows I hate Sony and have stated my reasons why constantly. I only use the SN on this board. I am glad everyone has seen through this. On game sites I post as my gamertag, and I never posted on EBgames site, I didn't know they had a forum. Matt357, please get off my dick, son. It's not a good look man for real.Rocky Miavia said:No need to argue. Everybody sees that you own3d yourself by posing as Freaky_1 on EBGames.
Just to play devils advocate, who was that that posted that? If it wasn't you, then who? Like I said this is sad on your part, and people think I'm the worst on here with that shit, at least I post facts. This is very pathetic man. People on here know my GT. So this is not even valid. It may be a real post, but not by me.
Oh yeah and.....
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SOLOW said:
That shit is just sad and pathetic. Matt's unhealthy obsession with Sony has finally lead him to snap.
^^^^^
..as pathetic as FUCKYOU when he posted the fake stacks of hunnids...and sucked the gravy outta MissMightys tampon with the string hangin outta his mouth all the while...
....... 
I know im late but what the fuck ? Is these debates really getting that far ? Matt? what the hell? IT cant be that serious, Im thought you were level headed ,but i saw you cracking by the day though. Its like you an freak switched souls or something lol . Unless both of you two are one an the same ? ??? nah , freak i guess you have sig material now
Damn Sony taking L's left and right
Dude, you can't possibly believe that.IGSaint said:wow, I don't know what's more surprising that freaky has a ps3 or that matt found this response.
This dude is desperate, he can't counter me so he results to shit like this. He needs this thing that is known as a life.From the Australia launch event.
What if Sony threw a launch party and nobody came?
10:30pm - I'm at Pitt St. Mall, heart of Sydney's city shopping, and location for the "official" Sony launch. Not exactly official official, since it was put on by Myer in an attempt to remind people they sell video games, rather than Sony in an attempt to remind people the PS3 was coming out. But all the Sony bigwigs were there, so that's official enough for me. And you too, I imagine.
2.
For our entertainment: a massive screen projecting Casino Royale. I've seen this already. Attempts to suggest we watch The Thing fall on deaf ears. Cut me loose, goddamnit, cut me loose. Not on Blu-Ray, you see. Also on offer is free coffee, ice cream and Pepsi. No Coke? "Not our sponsors, mate" comes the reply. Fair enough, I know how these things work. It's all a little impressive for a quiet Thursday night.
3. 10:50pm - Some hot young thing from a radio station is here trying her little heart out to MC the evening by interrupting the Casino Royal screening to get everyone excited for the PS3. "Did you know the PS3 can use two remotes?" she shrieks with feigned delight. The blank stares she receives in return lets her know she said something unacceptable. She doesn't care: she's young, and beautiful, and these men are up at midnight on a school night to spend $1000 on a video games console.
4. 11:00pm - It all starts going a little bit wrong. You see, for security purposes, crash barriers have been erected in front of the Casino Royale screen, in order to best herd the hordes of expected customers up the escalators towards their waiting PS3s. Except...nobody is here. It's an hour before kick-off, and there's probably 40 people in line. Another twenty and they might outnumber the media in attendance.
A quick run down to the EB and JB Hi-Fi at the nearby Galeries shopping centre tell a similar story: ghost towns.
Back at Myer, some radio people are grabbing teenagers (appropriately, mind) and getting them to scream "PS3!! YEAH!!!" into a mic, no doubt so all of Sydney could share in the excitement. Three kids obliged, and for the second time in the night a radio personality is met with 100 blank, disapproving stares.
5. 11:25pm - Still nobody here. A band of douches with a film-crew were trying to interview people about the PS3. "Fuck, mate, there's nobody here!" one exhales between cigarettes. "Hey, ladies!" another, the cameraman, hollers.
Two thirty-something women who had stopped for a moment to perv on Daniel Craig were pounced upon. "Hey, ladies, are you here to buy a PS3?" the interviewer pleads.
"Uh...no".
"Fuck! Nobody is! Well, can you pretend you are? You'll be on TV!"
Fantastic.
6. 11:40 - A few more people have trickled in. Still, counting actual customers (and not their mates/girlfriends/crazy homeless people loitering to score free coffee and a movie) we're looking at 50, 60 tops. Only a brave man would say this is meeting expectations. Who knows why the turnout is so low? We'd have asked the non-attendees themselves if they'd attended.
The radio girl with the nice legs is still doing her thang on the m-i-c. I feel a little sorry for her. In her spare time she obviously finds the very concept of games abhorrent, yet here she is, propped up on stage at midnight on a Thursday having to pretend she knows everything about the PS3. There are worse jobs, sure, but there are also better ones.
11:50 - It's nearly go-time. Crowd is still pretty small, and is obviously going to stay that way. I feel kind of bad for the Sony guys. They all seem like really nice people, and have put on a good enough show tonight, it's just...for whatever reason, bugger-all people have felt compelled to make the midnight trip.
7.11:59 - We are go. The first customer in line, the lovable "Danny" ("I really thought there'd be more people here"), who will be purchasing Virtua Fighter 5, a HDMI cable and a second controller, is ushered inside for his four minutes of fame. He hits the counter, hands over his pre-order ticket, SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim is on the other side of the counter, smiling like a father at the birth of his third child. Goods are exchanged for currency
9. The same tool who had tried to rig up the fake interview bellows "let's hear it for the PlayStation 3!". He had no connection to Sony whatsoever, so I'm not sure of his motives, but up went the cheers anyway. From the Myer and Sony staff, they were genuine. From the attending media, they were sarcastic, and from the waiting crowd, embarrassed smiles.
8. 12:07 - Nothing more to see here. The crowd is probably at around 80 or so which, for the official PS3 launch in Australia's biggest city, was a piss-poor turnout. Already the barriers and screen outside are being dismantled, and as Danny rushes home to play some VF5 I'm off to bed.
Final thoughts? Last night was a bust (and not just at the official launch). Sony put on a good show, but I don't think they, or Myer, had readied themselves for the fact nobody wanted to come. Midnight launches just aren't as popular in Australia as they are in other places (it's the apathy, you see), and when you throw in the fact the PS3 has come in on the back of 5 months of bad press (including the local media) and costs AUD$1000 (which is a significant psychological barrier) the turnout was about what I was expecting.
Still, this is only the first night of thousands that this thing will be on sale. I'd expect a few to be sold today and over the weekend as people do their shopping in regular, human hours, so it'd be unfair to pass judgement on the "launch" as whole until the GfK figures come in sometime next week.
Going just on last night, though? I'm hesitant to use the word disaster, but it's not the best start for the PS3 down under. Luke Plunkett
What if Sony threw a launch party and nobody came?
10:30pm - I'm at Pitt St. Mall, heart of Sydney's city shopping, and location for the "official" Sony launch. Not exactly official official, since it was put on by Myer in an attempt to remind people they sell video games, rather than Sony in an attempt to remind people the PS3 was coming out. But all the Sony bigwigs were there, so that's official enough for me. And you too, I imagine.
2.
For our entertainment: a massive screen projecting Casino Royale. I've seen this already. Attempts to suggest we watch The Thing fall on deaf ears. Cut me loose, goddamnit, cut me loose. Not on Blu-Ray, you see. Also on offer is free coffee, ice cream and Pepsi. No Coke? "Not our sponsors, mate" comes the reply. Fair enough, I know how these things work. It's all a little impressive for a quiet Thursday night.
3. 10:50pm - Some hot young thing from a radio station is here trying her little heart out to MC the evening by interrupting the Casino Royal screening to get everyone excited for the PS3. "Did you know the PS3 can use two remotes?" she shrieks with feigned delight. The blank stares she receives in return lets her know she said something unacceptable. She doesn't care: she's young, and beautiful, and these men are up at midnight on a school night to spend $1000 on a video games console.
4. 11:00pm - It all starts going a little bit wrong. You see, for security purposes, crash barriers have been erected in front of the Casino Royale screen, in order to best herd the hordes of expected customers up the escalators towards their waiting PS3s. Except...nobody is here. It's an hour before kick-off, and there's probably 40 people in line. Another twenty and they might outnumber the media in attendance.
A quick run down to the EB and JB Hi-Fi at the nearby Galeries shopping centre tell a similar story: ghost towns.
Back at Myer, some radio people are grabbing teenagers (appropriately, mind) and getting them to scream "PS3!! YEAH!!!" into a mic, no doubt so all of Sydney could share in the excitement. Three kids obliged, and for the second time in the night a radio personality is met with 100 blank, disapproving stares.
5. 11:25pm - Still nobody here. A band of douches with a film-crew were trying to interview people about the PS3. "Fuck, mate, there's nobody here!" one exhales between cigarettes. "Hey, ladies!" another, the cameraman, hollers.
Two thirty-something women who had stopped for a moment to perv on Daniel Craig were pounced upon. "Hey, ladies, are you here to buy a PS3?" the interviewer pleads.
"Uh...no".
"Fuck! Nobody is! Well, can you pretend you are? You'll be on TV!"
Fantastic.
6. 11:40 - A few more people have trickled in. Still, counting actual customers (and not their mates/girlfriends/crazy homeless people loitering to score free coffee and a movie) we're looking at 50, 60 tops. Only a brave man would say this is meeting expectations. Who knows why the turnout is so low? We'd have asked the non-attendees themselves if they'd attended.
The radio girl with the nice legs is still doing her thang on the m-i-c. I feel a little sorry for her. In her spare time she obviously finds the very concept of games abhorrent, yet here she is, propped up on stage at midnight on a Thursday having to pretend she knows everything about the PS3. There are worse jobs, sure, but there are also better ones.
11:50 - It's nearly go-time. Crowd is still pretty small, and is obviously going to stay that way. I feel kind of bad for the Sony guys. They all seem like really nice people, and have put on a good enough show tonight, it's just...for whatever reason, bugger-all people have felt compelled to make the midnight trip.
7.11:59 - We are go. The first customer in line, the lovable "Danny" ("I really thought there'd be more people here"), who will be purchasing Virtua Fighter 5, a HDMI cable and a second controller, is ushered inside for his four minutes of fame. He hits the counter, hands over his pre-order ticket, SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim is on the other side of the counter, smiling like a father at the birth of his third child. Goods are exchanged for currency
9. The same tool who had tried to rig up the fake interview bellows "let's hear it for the PlayStation 3!". He had no connection to Sony whatsoever, so I'm not sure of his motives, but up went the cheers anyway. From the Myer and Sony staff, they were genuine. From the attending media, they were sarcastic, and from the waiting crowd, embarrassed smiles.
8. 12:07 - Nothing more to see here. The crowd is probably at around 80 or so which, for the official PS3 launch in Australia's biggest city, was a piss-poor turnout. Already the barriers and screen outside are being dismantled, and as Danny rushes home to play some VF5 I'm off to bed.
Final thoughts? Last night was a bust (and not just at the official launch). Sony put on a good show, but I don't think they, or Myer, had readied themselves for the fact nobody wanted to come. Midnight launches just aren't as popular in Australia as they are in other places (it's the apathy, you see), and when you throw in the fact the PS3 has come in on the back of 5 months of bad press (including the local media) and costs AUD$1000 (which is a significant psychological barrier) the turnout was about what I was expecting.
Still, this is only the first night of thousands that this thing will be on sale. I'd expect a few to be sold today and over the weekend as people do their shopping in regular, human hours, so it'd be unfair to pass judgement on the "launch" as whole until the GfK figures come in sometime next week.
Going just on last night, though? I'm hesitant to use the word disaster, but it's not the best start for the PS3 down under. Luke Plunkett
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Gemini said:
Matt, that is really sad that you needed to take it that far. For shame man...
Back on the weekday grind
Record-breaking 165,000 PS3s sold at UK launch
18:45, Mar 26th 2007 by Neil Long
New format becomes fastest-selling home console ever over its debut weekend.
ChartTrack has confirmed that 165,000 PS3 units were sold during the console's launch weekend.
The figure is three quarters of the total 220,000 UK launch stock for day one, and makes PS3 second only to PSP in the overall launch weekend sales stakes. The Sony handheld shifted 185,000 in its opening weekend back in September 2005.
PS3’s record-breaking debut for a home console comfortably beats the previous top seller Nintendo Wii, which sold 105,000 after its frantic launch weekend in December last year. Fellow format rival Xbox 360 racked up an estimated 70,000 at launch in December 2005.
The figure also means that Sony has not sold all of its opening weekend stock, something the platform holder claims is part of its overall strategy at retail.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/26261/Record-breaking-165000-PS3s-sold-at-UK-launch
Record-breaking 165,000 PS3s sold at UK launch
18:45, Mar 26th 2007 by Neil Long
New format becomes fastest-selling home console ever over its debut weekend.
ChartTrack has confirmed that 165,000 PS3 units were sold during the console's launch weekend.
The figure is three quarters of the total 220,000 UK launch stock for day one, and makes PS3 second only to PSP in the overall launch weekend sales stakes. The Sony handheld shifted 185,000 in its opening weekend back in September 2005.
PS3’s record-breaking debut for a home console comfortably beats the previous top seller Nintendo Wii, which sold 105,000 after its frantic launch weekend in December last year. Fellow format rival Xbox 360 racked up an estimated 70,000 at launch in December 2005.
The figure also means that Sony has not sold all of its opening weekend stock, something the platform holder claims is part of its overall strategy at retail.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/26261/Record-breaking-165000-PS3s-sold-at-UK-launch
COULD THE PS3 FANBOYS AND XOBTS OF BGOL UNITE???
http://n4g.com/NewsCom-31918.aspx#Comments
The German gaming magazine Action revealed some new details on Team Fortress 2.
First of all, Valve, the developers, are thinking about including crossplatform online play. But this really depends on Microsoft and Sony.
There will be new types of gameplay modes, such as Capture The Documents (or Capture the Flag to you and I). So you will have to steal a briefcase from the opponent's base.
Team Fortress 2 will also feature new maps, and remakes of old maps from the first Team Fortress.
Lastly, the magazine revealed the primary, secondary and melee weapons for all classes:
http://n4g.com/NewsCom-31918.aspx#Comments
The German gaming magazine Action revealed some new details on Team Fortress 2.
First of all, Valve, the developers, are thinking about including crossplatform online play. But this really depends on Microsoft and Sony.
There will be new types of gameplay modes, such as Capture The Documents (or Capture the Flag to you and I). So you will have to steal a briefcase from the opponent's base.
Team Fortress 2 will also feature new maps, and remakes of old maps from the first Team Fortress.
Lastly, the magazine revealed the primary, secondary and melee weapons for all classes:
The PlayStation 3 launch sales reaction algorithm:
if (sales_were_low)
{
say_haha_ps3_is_a_disaster_its_over();
say_haha_sony_lost();
}
else
{
say_whatever_launch_day_means_nothing();
say_its_final_sales_that_count();
}
if (sales_were_low)
{
say_haha_ps3_is_a_disaster_its_over();
say_haha_sony_lost();
}
else
{
say_whatever_launch_day_means_nothing();
say_its_final_sales_that_count();
}
moblack said:
oh you mean by you, gemni, lightbrite, Freaky, Rocky...never thought of it that way..STUPID
freaky_1 said:
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