LOL PS3!

[Jax]

Score one more for the Wii!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAeKMyxt3I

Read the description.

 

[754boy]

lol some guy posted: omg, sony stole XBox 360 red lights of death too!!!

 

[Hitto]

Older than 8.8.

 

[lookout]

He brought a huge PS3 Alam clock... (setting the time beep beep)

 

[Hitto]

Now here's the very definition of "pathetic". Kill me the very day I behave like this loser :

Former Man Show co-host and the man who replaced Howard Stern offers gamers criticism and sex.

As everyone knows, the PS3 launched on November 17 and gamers rabid to play the new system (or to make a killing with it on Ebay) have been waiting on line most of the week at various retailers across the country.

Apparently amazed and somewhat sickened by the phenomenon, radio morning man Adam Carolla addressed the issue on his Thursday morning broadcast.

“I was passing by the Best Buy the other night,” Carolla said, “about ten o’clock… Tuesday night [and] saw the nerds… lined up.”

Carolla went on to state that the only people who would be able to stand in line for several days were unemployed “losers” or, more creatively, “splosers.” “Part spazz, all loser; sploser,” Carolla said.

In an effort to see just how rabid fans of the new system actually were, Carolla sent staffer “Big” Tad Newcomb (a regular on the show) and his assistant Lindsay to the Best Buy location at LaBrea and Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, California (“t****** Row,” Carolla called the area) to talk to some of these “splosers” and make them an offer that (supposedly) no red-blooded male can refuse.

“We’ve been talking to these people and they’re crazed fans, man,” Newcomb said. “This Best Buy is guaranteed twenty [PS3 systems], but they could get a max of two hundred.” According to Newcomb, there were between one hundred fifty and two hundred people waiting at the time, approximately 9:00 am, Pacific Time.

When Newcomb got one of the line-standers on the phone (a 30 year-old identified only by the name Jay), Carolla spoke with him briefly, peppering his interview with gags about the man living at home, not having a woman, and other such nerdly stereotypes. Then, a surprise guest, porn star Ron Jeremy came on the line and offered the man a free trip to the infamous “Bunny Ranch,” a legal brothel in Nevada, if he would agree to give up his place in line.

“If somebody wants to leave the line for what may be a defunct game a year from now anyway… I’ll give them an all expenses paid trip to the Bunny Ranch… a free visit, a free meal, free plane trip, free place to stay, and a free lady or ladies of their choice,” said Jeremy.

“Anyone who has been in that line for more than a few days is someone who hasn’t been laid in as many years,” Carolla told Jay. “How ‘bout you get out of that line, you give up your space and your new Xbox or whatever the hell you’re vying for and we get ya laid out at the Bunny Ranch?”

Jay’s response? “Never gonna happen,” he told Carolla and Jeremy. “It’s the PS3. Ain’t gonna happen.”

Carolla went on to ask another gamer, a man named Carlos, who also declined. When the bit was said and done, no one waiting at the Best Buy took the host up on the morally questionable offer.

Is the chance, however slim it may be, at a new PS3 more enticing than free illicit sex and partying with a prostitute? For some gamers, apparently, yes.

Article by Michael Triggs.
Nov 18, 2006

LOL PS3 indeed.

Sauce : http://consoles.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/10756/

(don't thank me, thank anonymous.)

 

[Harsky]

Roffle at article Hitto posted. I suppose the only reason he turned down that offer was because he thought Ron Jeremy was Mario and the Sony guy was probably defecting to the dark side....

 

[Hitto]

Even more lolage at sony's expense :

Lucky few got game: Crowds go after PS3s, mayor goes after Sony
By Marie Szaniszlo
Saturday, November 18, 2006

A furious Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed yesterday to bill Sony Corp. for the chaos that swirled around the release of its PlayStation 3 machine after Boston police had to quell crowds grown frenzied and unruly by the hype surrounding the coveted consoles.
Playstation 3:
  “We had to rush in 12 police cars with officers there and take them off the streets of our city where they’re doing their patrols, to squelch the crowd that we had there,” Menino said, referring to a throng of 500 at Copley Place.
  “It’s something that should not be tolerated,” he said. “It’s wrong to take advantage of the public that way, wrong by the manufacturer and by the retailer.”


  Japan-based Sony made only 400,000 PlayStation 3’s available for the product’s launch, and thousands camped out for days at stores across the nation for a shot at shelling out $500-plus for the holiday must-have.
  “The mayor feels this is a ploy by big business to fill the pockets of their stockholders on the public’s back without any regard for public safety,” said Menino’s spokeswoman, Dot Joyce.
  Police had to control crowds at the Copley Plaza Mall’s Sony Style, where throngs rushed the doors at 5 a.m., and at the Fenway Best Buy, where more than 400 people were lined up by noon Thursday.
  “It was ridiculous,” said Fernando Villanueva, 22, of the South End, who camped out in the rain starting Wednesday and paid $630 for a PS3. “We tried to keep it orderly by creating a list and having a roll call every half hour,” he said. “But the store said our list was meaningless; it’s going to be a mad rush, and whoever gets through the doors first gets one.”
  Police eventually convinced Best Buy to honor the list. But elsewhere, mobs of customers stampeded into stores, injuring a man in Wisconsin and forcing authorities to close a Wal-Mart in California.
  In Connecticut, two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people outside a Putnam Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. Michael Penkala of Webster refused to give up his money and was shot, police said. He was in stable condition yesterday at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester with non-life-threatening injuries, said Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.
  Sony spokesman Dave Karraker said 400,000 PS3’s were all the company could produce for the launch. The chaos “is not something we planned or foresaw,” he said.
  If Sony didn’t, nearly everyone else seemed to know that limited supplies and high demand were a formula for trouble.
  “All this hype was created by some marketing ‘genius’ who didn’t think out the end game,” said Hub public relations guru George Regan. “When you have people waiting for hours, even days, in the rain, and someone gets hurt, all for the ‘privilege’ of paying $600 for some game, sooner or later, it’s going to backfire.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional...rticleid=167837