I just remembered this as I went in to the store to buy Virtua Tennis 3 on my lunchbreak.

Outside of the store Webhallen here in central Stockholm, sweden (you know the one where I found the first GTA4+ps3 official bundle), there are a few people camping, waiting in line for GTA4. They have been there for a few days, so they basically started camping three weeks in advance. Remember this is Sweden, we even had snow a few days ago!

 There is a reason for this madness though, and a good one. The store will open at midnight on the 29th of April, to start selling the game. They will have what they call a battle between Xbox360 and Playstation 3, with seperate lines for the two versions of the game. The 10 first customers in each line will get to buy their respective system + GTA4 for 1 Skr = 0.17 US$ ! Pretty cheap...  The Xbox360 is an Elite. Numbers 11-60 will get to buy GTA4 for 1 Skr. The rest will get a slight discount on the normal bundle price. There will also be prices handed out everyday there is a que, so that should have started already.

EDIT: link  http://www.webhallen.com/list_group.php?avd=1&group=905

Thats quite a challenge to sit there for 3 weeks. I don't know if it would be worth it though.

wow, thats a great deal! stupid as hell for the store, but great for you guys. Why sell something for so little when you know people were going to buy it at full price anyway?

lol, too bad you aint first in line, could give you some great discounts

Yeah definately not worth it for me. I mean two or three hours of standing in line to buy GTA4 instead of say...working, and I would actually loose money.

Now that chance to get a X360 for free though, there is something to think about....
If the que is not that long on the evening of the 28th I might stand in line for a few hours to buy the game for cheap, but probably not.

Sweden?

Sweden = cold.

Waiting outside in the cold....

Brave swedisch people :(.

Yeah, I think that would definitely just be for some people who have absolutely nothing else to do. If you had a job you most likely would make much much more than that working for those 3 weeks.

With all the publicity that they get for their store with that stunt it's not stupid at all.

Crazy Swedes...

PS: Mmmm, jag ska till Sveavägen på Tisdag. Jag måste se det.

My god 3 weeks ... I can imagine waiting for a day , but 21 days :o