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I've heard few times people come asking for Mario games for PS2 from the clerk.
But the best was when one mother came shopping games for her 2 sons, when i happened to be shopping for games for me, and her kids had translated the games names in finnish and told their mother the games names in finnish. Too bad the clerk didn't have basically any kind of english skill, otherwise he would have known that the mother came asking for Half-Life, Quake and few others. Nothing bad with the names otherwise, but they sound really gay translated to finnish. But damn i had fun when i heard her asking the games in their finnish translations. :D



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I guess people here are smarter than the average bear, huh.




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The thing I hate is these uninformed people buy games/consoles and it makes the developers makes lazy continuations cause they know people will buy it, or consoles that live basically due to past buyers only wanting Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft.



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I see the folks that buy Wii games know what they're looking for even though these are the stereotype of people who don't know what video games are (the 40 and 50 year olds) and they seem the most educated about what they're buying, it's just odd looking at the demographics, at least for my store, is anyone's store like this as well?



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kingofwale said:
>but just about every buyer is shocked when I tell them about no BC for the newer PS3's.


Yeah, I'm shocked too, are you saying 80GB PS3 has no BC?

 Are you saying that the 80GB PS3 is the the newer PS3?



izaaz101 said:
kingofwale said:
>but just about every buyer is shocked when I tell them about no BC for the newer PS3's.


Yeah, I'm shocked too, are you saying 80GB PS3 has no BC?

Are you saying that the 80GB PS3 is the the newer PS3?


 It's definitely not the older PS3, so yes,it is the newer PS3.

 

Note. there's a difference between "newer" and "newest" 



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Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor
: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)

Compared to the 40GB, the 80GB is the older PS3.



>Compared to the 40GB, the 80GB is the older PS3.

and comparing to all the SKU out there since day one, it's considered "newer", not "NEWEST", but "newer"

feel free to nitpicking all you want.



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor
: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)

How many of those other SKU's are still available in store? I see only 2....one is the 80GB, the older one, and one is the 40GB, the newer one.