I feel sorry for any hurt, some people go crazy over this stuff. Wasn't a woman trampled to death a few years ago?

^^ I found this: http://www.ranker.com/list/13-most-brutal-black-friday-injuries-and-deaths/john-barryman

omg never gonna participate in black friday ever!

Seece said: Xenostar said: Seece said: Laurel Aitken said: That's what he saw in the stores. I remember you: This an anecdotal evidence thread. Plus "people dont saw in the stores what they wanted to believe", they saw what was happening. If it makes you happy: PS3 will, according to what we have seen in other years, be last place. Now you can be happy, go and enjoy your live! 'Looks like 360 and PS3 were the major sellers this Black Friday.' From what he SAW thats what it LOOKED like, you cant get more of an anecdotal statement for an anecdotal thread, why are you so mad at him, he didnt say defintaley no questions asked.  I'm not mad at either of them, I just find it amusing. I'm aware this is an anecdotal thread, I'm just suprised people think just because it is though, they'll extrapolate for the entire country, just seems incredibly pointless to me!

I'm just surprised that you'd spend so much time sitting under a bridge waiting for billy goats to come trip trapping across.  It just seems incredibly pointless to me!

Wow... that is unbelievable.
So, people really get crazy on BF... that is so sad.

Seece said: Xenostar said: Seece said: Laurel Aitken said: That's what he saw in the stores. I remember you: This an anecdotal evidence thread. Plus "people dont saw in the stores what they wanted to believe", they saw what was happening. If it makes you happy: PS3 will, according to what we have seen in other years, be last place. Now you can be happy, go and enjoy your live! 'Looks like 360 and PS3 were the major sellers this Black Friday.' From what he SAW thats what it LOOKED like, you cant get more of an anecdotal statement for an anecdotal thread, why are you so mad at him, he didnt say defintaley no questions asked.  I'm not mad at either of them, I just find it amusing. I'm aware this is an anecdotal thread, I'm just suprised people think just because it is though, they'll extrapolate for the entire country, just seems incredibly pointless to me!

"I'm just suprised people think just because it is though, they'll extrapolate for the entire country, just seems incredibly pointless to me!"

I agree with your point but I dont understand how you can be sure that thats the way he meant it. I could have said the same. It looks like it to me too. BUT I am fully aware that this is not enough to go by. PS3 could still do extremly bad eventhough it looks like its going to do really good from my current perspective. He maybe wasnt trying to make claims based on what he saw. He just stated how it looked like to him.

Yeah Boxing day is busy in Canada, but never in Canada does violence occur.

With 150+ million shopping over the the next 3 days, craziness will ensue.

 

Here in Canada its rather tame, way busier then usual as people will shop today and especially on the weekend.

Just left Target in Little Rock Arkansas. 1 Gears of War 3 360 bundle left. 1 each of PS3 holiday bundle, uncharted 3 bundle, move bundle. 3 Wii NSMBWii No Kinects be found.

Seece said: thismeintiel said: Pretty much the same as the OP's experience. The PS3s went up at 10 and I went to check on them at 10:20 and they were all gone. There weren't even people in line asking about them, they had cleared off already. I would imagine the same was true for the 360. Didn't check on the Wiis or Kinect itself. I also went to Toys R Us. They were out of all 160GB PS3s, but still had 3 or 4 320GB ones. Still had like 4 or 5 360 bundles, but I imagine they didn't stay there long after I left. Looks like 360 and PS3 were the major sellers this Black Friday. Can't wait til we get some early numbers. Edit: Oh and there was a fist fight amongst a large group of black people over a fucking shitty $35 dollar Boost touchscreen phone.  Black Friday is a whacky day. lol I ove how people use anecdotal evidence to say something is gonna be huge. PS3 did 300k last BF, Wii did 600k and so did 360 .. can't see PS3 being a 'major seller' as always people see what they want to believe.

Lol, I love how people enter a thread about anectdotal evidence and their thoughts on it, and instead of offering anything to the thread, they decide to critisize people for contributing to the thread.    As with Joel's thread, if all you're going to do is offer criticism to posters, without adding anything to the thread, just leave.

Also, I could bring up Holiday '09.  You know, where BF week the PS3 sold ~486K in Americas, while the 360 only sold ~354K, for a difference of ~132K in the PS3's favor.

thismeintiel said: Seece said: thismeintiel said: Pretty much the same as the OP's experience. The PS3s went up at 10 and I went to check on them at 10:20 and they were all gone. There weren't even people in line asking about them, they had cleared off already. I would imagine the same was true for the 360. Didn't check on the Wiis or Kinect itself. I also went to Toys R Us. They were out of all 160GB PS3s, but still had 3 or 4 320GB ones. Still had like 4 or 5 360 bundles, but I imagine they didn't stay there long after I left. Looks like 360 and PS3 were the major sellers this Black Friday. Can't wait til we get some early numbers. Edit: Oh and there was a fist fight amongst a large group of black people over a fucking shitty $35 dollar Boost touchscreen phone.  Black Friday is a whacky day. lol I ove how people use anecdotal evidence to say something is gonna be huge. PS3 did 300k last BF, Wii did 600k and so did 360 .. can't see PS3 being a 'major seller' as always people see what they want to believe. Lol, I love how people enter a thread about anectdotal evidence and their thoughts on it, and instead of offering anything to the thread, they decide to critisize people for contributing to the thread.    As with Joel's thread, if all you're going to do is offer criticism to posters, without adding anything to the thread, just leave. Also, I could bring up Holiday '09.  You know, where BF week the PS3 sold ~486K in Americas, while the 360 only sold ~354K, for a difference of ~132K in the PS3's favor.

Americas /= USA. I have contribuited, I gave my condolences to the people hurt

But really, I know what you meant by your comment. PS3 has always been last BF though (In the U.S), I don't think 300/400k can be classed as 'huge' with the Walmart deal as well I imagin Wii will be above it.

Seece said: thismeintiel said: Seece said: thismeintiel said: Pretty much the same as the OP's experience. The PS3s went up at 10 and I went to check on them at 10:20 and they were all gone. There weren't even people in line asking about them, they had cleared off already. I would imagine the same was true for the 360. Didn't check on the Wiis or Kinect itself. I also went to Toys R Us. They were out of all 160GB PS3s, but still had 3 or 4 320GB ones. Still had like 4 or 5 360 bundles, but I imagine they didn't stay there long after I left. Looks like 360 and PS3 were the major sellers this Black Friday. Can't wait til we get some early numbers. Edit: Oh and there was a fist fight amongst a large group of black people over a fucking shitty $35 dollar Boost touchscreen phone.  Black Friday is a whacky day. lol I ove how people use anecdotal evidence to say something is gonna be huge. PS3 did 300k last BF, Wii did 600k and so did 360 .. can't see PS3 being a 'major seller' as always people see what they want to believe. Lol, I love how people enter a thread about anectdotal evidence and their thoughts on it, and instead of offering anything to the thread, they decide to critisize people for contributing to the thread.    As with Joel's thread, if all you're going to do is offer criticism to posters, without adding anything to the thread, just leave. Also, I could bring up Holiday '09.  You know, where BF week the PS3 sold ~486K in Americas, while the 360 only sold ~354K, for a difference of ~132K in the PS3's favor. Americas /= USA. I have contribuited, I gave my condolences to the people hurt But really, I know what you meant by your comment. PS3 has always been last BF though (In the U.S), I don't think 300/400k can be classed as 'huge' with the Walmart deal as well I imagin Wii will be above it.

Except that the US counts for ~80-85% of the sales in America, especially on Black Friday week.  Which means the PS3 beat the 360 that year for Black Friday.  Unless you have proof otherwise?  I do have this article from VGChartz here.  Sure, it's talking all of Americas, but they still illustrates how big PS3 was that year.