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Dno on 07 June 2008

Metal Gear bundle kills amazon.com [Update]

Posted Jun 6th 2008 1:45PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News


Well, good job folks. We told you that amazon.com would sell the Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB bundle today. And you all listened. Thousands of you swarmed the site, got rid of their inventory in seven minutes, and best of all -- you killed amazon.com.

Demand for the Metal Gear bundle was so high, that the popular online retailer simply couldn't handle the traffic. If this is the fervor in just one store, imagine how well the bundles are going to sell when they release nationwide next Thursday.

Update: GameStop.com is selling 80GB bundles, but you are forced to buy the questionable Bluetooth headset. The total cost? $560.

Update: Well, it's finally back.
point is tho this game better sell a billion or this means nuthin to me lol.


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JaggedSac on 07 June 2008

LOL, Amazon's infrastructure sucks balls if a PS3 bundle took it down.



starcraft on 07 June 2008

Apparently the site was hit with a bot attack. PS3 fanboys just latched onto it going down and said TEH DOMINATIONZ BEGINZ!!!!



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FishyJoe on 07 June 2008

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but some blogger on PS3 fanboy isn't much proof.



Magnific0 on 07 June 2008

I think the story here is the inventory disappeared in a couple of minutes. I was stalking the site, I saw when the bundles became available, had to move away from the computer for a while when I came back it was all gone. Like an hour later, the site was down.



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Pristine20 on 07 June 2008

Starcraft, if you aren't a 360 fanboy, IDK who is



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

MaximusOptimus on 07 June 2008
Pristine20 said:
Starcraft, if you aren't a 360 fanboy, IDK who is

 Judging from his profile and his sony selective whatever crap, he might not be a 360 fanboy just somebody with nothing better to do than bash PS3 supporters and anything positive for Sony.  It entertaining for now since he does have a point often about the PS3 and all it's problems.  I was and still am disappointed with the direction Sony took the PS3.



Mil. Sellers:

Wii:      25 titles       101.4 mil total    avg 4 mil per title

PS3:     14 titles      28.6 mil total    avg ~2 mil per title

360:     41 titles      89.8 mil total   avg  >2 mil per title

Kasz216 on 07 June 2008

Yeah. MGS crashed the site despite things have sold out faster at a higher volume having no effect.

I mean... use the slightest bit of common sense.



dtewi on 07 June 2008

I see no proof whatsoever that it was caused by MGS4.

And I agree Kasz.



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

Galaki on 07 June 2008

They were having problem on their server. Some of the games went completely missing (Which were re-added with some new ASIN). MGS4 just happened to be riding the wave.



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