The Madness Continues

The PLAYSTATION 3 launched in the United States today, and there were hundreds of thousands of people camped in line waiting for a chance to get their greasy paws on the next-gen system. Most of those greasy paws plan to hawk the console on e-Bay to desperate individuals who promised it to their kids as a Christmas gift. The insanity has reached an all time high as people are getting their cars broken into, fighting , getting shot with BB guns, and real bullets in order to procure themselves a PS3 this holiday.

From Kotaku
"Two gunmen robbed a line of people waiting to buy the Playstation 3 outside a Wal-Mart store in Putnam, Connecticut early Friday morning, shooting one man for resisting, police there said.

The masked gunmen, one armed with a handgun, the other with a shotgun, confronted the line of 15 to 20 people about 3 a.m. and demanded their money. After the robbery and shooting the two fled and the victim was taken to a local hospital. His condition was unknown today."

This is beyond friggin' ridiculous, all these people (i assume about 80%) waiting to get a console they plan to sell on the internet, there is gonna be a huge saturation of PS3's on e-Bay, and pretty soon no one will want to pay 2 Grand or more for a $600 device. And i know Sony is trying to generate buzz by deliberately putting out a limited supply of consoles, but 400,000 is a really shitty number, especially in an opportunistic country such as this one. Plus i wouldn't dare buy a Launch day console, those things always have bugs.