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thismeintiel on 29 November 2014
Euphoria14 said:

Still saw plenty of PS4 at my local Walmart yesterday when I went to buy a new tree. Either people don't want a PS4 or they shipped a shit ton.

This was at around 2PM.

Considering that the PS4 is lighting up the charts online, yet hasn't sold out, I'm going with some beastly shipments.  And a place like NewEgg, which is hardly the mecca of console sales, has over 10K of them.



 

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vivster on 29 November 2014
Ninsect said:
I think Sony got some beast shipments in. 22m shipped by the end of the year??

Don't think they would ship anymore consoles if they only sold 100k on BF.



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KLAMarine on 29 November 2014

I stayed at home on Black Friday.

I don't want to get trampled to death or shot and killed for my Ouya.



KLAMarine on 29 November 2014
cpg716 said:

Ewww. Destiny.



Mr_No on 29 November 2014
Kerotan said:

Why didn't the stores stopped the queues well short of the doors and let people in, in sections, I went to a football match recently and was in the away supporters section. They only let like 60 of us through at a time before searching us. It keeps everything calm and orderly instead of letting 300 people charge through a door at once. 

They let like 30 people at a time at Best Buy. But it was always chaotic at Wal Mart with people cutting lines and jumping barriers, so it wouldn't make any difference. I gotta say the Funai TV thing from last year disappointed a lot of people, so they didn't feel like going this year.. $98 for a 1080p 40 inch LED IIRC.



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Insidb on 29 November 2014
thismeintiel said:
Euphoria14 said:

Still saw plenty of PS4 at my local Walmart yesterday when I went to buy a new tree. Either people don't want a PS4 or they shipped a shit ton.

This was at around 2PM.

Considering that the PS4 is lighting up the charts online, yet hasn't sold out, I'm going with some beastly shipments.  And a place like NewEgg, which is hardly the mecca of console sales, has over 10K of them.

I'm with you on this one, it appears that Walmart was, too:

http://fortune.com/2014/11/28/video-game-bundles-black-friday/

“We’ve increased Black Friday inventory in every category, including hardware bundles,” Wal-Mart senior vice president of Entertainment Laura Phillips said. “We have tripled the amount of PlayStation 4 and other gaming consoles available.”



Kerotan on 29 November 2014
BraLoD said:
Kerotan said:
Sareth said:
I personally sold a copy of Mario Kart 8 to someone. Nintendo saved.


I sold my PS1 and 3 games to my cousin. PS1 un-doomed back to life? 

How could you sell such a thing? :o


i was joking :D sadly my PS1 wasn't respected at the time and it's now in the scrap! Luckily Sony put all the games I liked up on the PSN store! Every last one :D 



Kerotan on 29 November 2014
Mr_No said:
Kerotan said:

Why didn't the stores stopped the queues well short of the doors and let people in, in sections, I went to a football match recently and was in the away supporters section. They only let like 60 of us through at a time before searching us. It keeps everything calm and orderly instead of letting 300 people charge through a door at once. 

They let like 30 people at a time at Best Buy. But it was always chaotic at Wal Mart with people cutting lines and jumping barriers, so it wouldn't make any difference. I gotta say the Funai TV thing from last year disappointed a lot of people, so they didn't feel like going this year.. $98 for a 1080p 40 inch LED IIRC.

iT'S SAD SEEING HUMANS TRAMPLE EACHOTHER FOR THE (sorry for caps) a cheap ass 50" HDTV. Funny thing is it's shit in quality and the thing is built from cheap componest with a very high failure rate. 



Angelv577 on 29 November 2014
Kerotan said:
Mr_No said:
Kerotan said:

Why didn't the stores stopped the queues well short of the doors and let people in, in sections, I went to a football match recently and was in the away supporters section. They only let like 60 of us through at a time before searching us. It keeps everything calm and orderly instead of letting 300 people charge through a door at once. 

They let like 30 people at a time at Best Buy. But it was always chaotic at Wal Mart with people cutting lines and jumping barriers, so it wouldn't make any difference. I gotta say the Funai TV thing from last year disappointed a lot of people, so they didn't feel like going this year.. $98 for a 1080p 40 inch LED IIRC.

iT'S SAD SEEING HUMANS TRAMPLE EACHOTHER FOR THE (sorry for caps) a cheap ass 50" HDTV. Funny thing is it's shit in quality and the thing is built from cheap componest with a very high failure rate. 


which tv brands has the lowest failure rate?



Ninsect on 29 November 2014
Angelv577 said:
Kerotan said:

iT'S SAD SEEING HUMANS TRAMPLE EACHOTHER FOR THE (sorry for caps) a cheap ass 50" HDTV. Funny thing is it's shit in quality and the thing is built from cheap componest with a very high failure rate. 


which tv brands has the lowest failure rate?

Hard to say but some quality TV brands are Samsung, Panasonic and Sony



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