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European retailers praise PS3 supply chain, Demand is getting 'crazy'

I saw my first PS3 ad today on TV. This is in Australia by the way.

Of course, it's not unusual that it would be the first ad I seen. I don't watch TV at all, I just happened to look up at the screens at the gym today, and there it was. The amusing thing though, was that following it straight after was a guy that put his hand to his face in pain or unhappiness (I think it was a headache commercial). But all I could think of was the usual GAF image of the guy with the caption "not this shit again".

I think it's a sign I read GAF too much.
 
aktham said:
Europeans have taste. It's no wonder they look down on Americans.
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In here (France), I mentionned to many people the release of the console next week, and they weren't aware of it. Even gamers told me "oh, it's next week ?

The buzz is not really high for the moment.
 
yesterday night i saw one ps3 commercial on german television, namely SAT 1.

it was the commercial with the exploding suitcase at the beginning of the video we once saw. but they only showed some scenes about it with a bad syncro imo :/ but oh well, better than nothing, right?
 
Ceb said:
Looks like it's still available. Did you read some PR that suggested otherwise?
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They are still taking pre-orders. But now they say they cant guarantee you get one on launch day, like before. And from what I have read, the people who ordered late still haven’t gotten the email saying they'll get the system on launch.

DiscShop still has systems left though.
 
Forsete said:
They are still taking pre-orders. But now they say they cant guarantee you get one on launch day, like before. And from what I have read, the people who ordered late still haven’t gotten the email saying they'll get the system on launch.

DiscShop still has systems left though.
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Their page say that you will most likely get one if you pre-order it. It's always been like that. They're the cheapest store in Sweden if you don't count El-giganten with their free copy of CoD 3, so it's no surprise that they'll sell lots of PS3.
 
After nearly twenty years in the business I've never known such charged anticipation for a console launch
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I don't doubt that it will be a successful launch, but that statement goes way too far.
 
The adverts are terrible, the 'This is Living' one has the last few frames cut off, the important ones that actually mention what the advert is about - Playstation 3.

It came on in the cinema and afterwards everyone audibly said, "What the hell was that about?"
 
Forsete said:
They are still taking pre-orders. But now they say they cant guarantee you get one on launch day, like before. And from what I have read, the people who ordered late still haven’t gotten the email saying they'll get the system on launch.
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It says that all people who pre-order should get their console on the release day. Regarding the e-mail, I pre-ordered early but had to get in touch with support myself to receive it.

All HT/gaming enthusiasts I've talked too are really hyped about the PS3. I think it will do well. :)
 
SRG01 said:
Amazon UK has the PS3 as #1 in Videogames for the past while now. (At least half a day by now, may be longer since I, being in North America, don't visit Amazon UK frequently)
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The PS3 has near to no hype here in France. I haven't any single commercial and i still haven't seen it above the Wii on the Amazon.fr charts.
 
I live in the Uk and I'm not feeling the hype at all.

I heard a competition on talksport where you could win a PS3. The presenter said it had blu-ray and his co-presnter asked 'whats that?' and he replied saying he didn't know but anything blue had to be good.

There was an aritcal in the times newspaper about the PS3, weighing the pros and cons. It said it was a powerful console but too expensive and risked falling flat on its face with increased competition from Microsoft and Nintendo.
 
Ceb said:
It says that all people who pre-order should get their console on the release day.
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Ah, I found it in the PS3 hardware section. I was looking at the sites which the banners pointed to.

All HT/gaming enthusiasts I've talked too are really hyped about the PS3. I think it will do well.
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Same here.
Seems lots of PC folk are interested in the PS3, at least where I work.

Also its getting lots of attention in the media (for being a game system, in Sweden). SVT, TV4, the magazines and newspapers have shown it. NF finally doing a good job at marketing? ;P
 
milanbaros said:
I heard a competition on talksport where you could win a PS3. The presenter said it had blu-ray and his co-presnter asked 'whats that?' and he replied saying he didn't know but anything blue had to be good.
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:lol

Perhaps Dolphin could've won as a name last gen for Nintendo!

"This is Nintendo's new system here, it's called the Dolphin"
"Oh so it's like those animals that live in a blue-green water based substance we call the ocean? SOLD BECAUSE OF BLUE!!"
 
Here in Spain there's quite a bit of hype. Yesterday I went to a Game store to buy a DDR dancepad and asked how the PS3 reservations were going. "It is crazy, it is as if the console would not cost as much as it does". And there are huge in - stores advertisings, plus a completely absurd and impossible to understand TV campaign (one weird ad about a hotel full of professional killers / psycos).

I personally think that this will be the same case of the PSP: huge frontloaded sales on the first 2 -3 months due to the great number of Sony loyalists, followed by a rapid decline and a stabilization with passable regular sales due to the price.
 
There is hype in the UK?

Totally passed me by...maybe because I live with a bunch of cash-strapped students, but it's more likely to be the fact people don't want to spend £425 on a games console.

Go to Sussex and I'm sure they'll be sitting in their mansions, wiping their arses with 50s and seeing who can pre-order the largest amount of stupidly expensive video games consoles.
 
There is hype in the UK?

Totally passed me by...maybe because I live with a bunch of cash-strapped students, but it's more likely to be the fact people don't want to spend £425 on a games console.
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Well, there is very little hype in Edinburgh - I know of one person getting a PS3 and he is only getting it for Blu-Ray; he has a home theatre set-up and money to burn. Both Game and Gamestation on Princess St haven't had great pre-order numbers for PS3 - certainly less than Wii - and I attribute that as solely down to the £425 price tag.
 
Xzbeat said:
The PS3 has near to no hype here in France. I haven't any single commercial and i still haven't seen it above the Wii on the Amazon.fr charts.
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Actually I've seen a commercial to announce a real commercial the 22th march at 20:30, so I presume there will be only one "big" commercial before the launch and some teasing for this commercial...
 
milanbaros said:
I heard a competition on talksport where you could win a PS3. The presenter said it had blu-ray and his co-presnter asked 'whats that?' and he replied saying he didn't know but anything blue had to be good.
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What on earth does the ignorance of talksport presenters have to do with anything? That's not a PS3 thing - they're just as thick as a large collection of short planks.

gollumsluvslave said:
Well, there is very little hype in Edinburgh - I know of one person getting a PS3 and he is only getting it for Blu-Ray; he has a home theatre set-up and money to burn. Both Game and Gamestation on Princess St haven't had great pre-order numbers for PS3 - certainly less than Wii - and I attribute that as solely down to the £425 price tag.
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Don't forget - northerners and poor people don't count.
 
fabprems said:
Actually I've seen a commercial to announce a real commercial the 22th march at 20:30, so I presume there will be only one "big" commercial before the launch and some teasing for this commercial...
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I never got that kind of marketing.
 
Napoleonthechimp said:
I'm not usually a violent man, but if you're a student and you buy a PS3 then you deserve a beating.
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Why? I'm not picking it up at launch (uni exams and everything...) but by late summer (when some decent games come out and I finish the PS2 games I haven't touched) I'll probably have one.
And no, I haven't seen any commercials here in London either (except for the Playstation 3 billboards during Champions League matches).
 
Sandman7 said:
Why? I'm not picking it up at launch (uni exams and everything...) but by late summer (when some decent games come out and I finish the PS2 games I haven't touched) I'll probably have one.
And no, I haven't seen any commercials here in London either (except for the Playstation 3 billboards during Champions League matches).
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people dont realize that Europeans spend a lot more money on PC gaming so prices for PS3 are not that expensive.

but oh well, who really cares... I can tell you right now that I am the only one in Bosnia talking about PS3, so hence, it will fail terribly. Poor Sony.
 
GAME managers from what I have heard are vying for HUGE bonuses from Sony with the PS3, therefore justifying the strange and absurd pro-PS3 adverts in their stores which have been cropping up, such as the XB360/PS3 one previous. Strange that they get away with such things.
 
Setanta said:
GAME managers from what I have heard are vying for HUGE bonuses from Sony with the PS3, therefore justifying the strange and absurd pro-PS3 adverts in their stores which have been cropping up, such as the XB360/PS3 one previous. Strange that they get away with such things.
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The ads I've seen are somewhat inaccurate but not "strange and absurd". What's strange and absurd about breaking down the price of the PS3 compared to its competition, especially as GAME are trying to sell as many of them as they possibly can?
 
iapetus said:
What on earth does the ignorance of talksport presenters have to do with anything? That's not a PS3 thing - they're just as thick as a large collection of short planks.



Don't forget - northerners and poor people don't count.
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I think you forget that the vast majority of UK consumers are both poor (certainley not wealthy) and "thick" when it comes to technical things. Bluray is the one thing to justify PS3's inflated price, if your average joe on the street doesn't even know what it is, let alone desire it, then the PS3 is going to run into some trouble sooner or later.

You can get a 360 with two games for £300, a similar PS3 package is going to pass the £500 mark. With 360 currently leveraging a better game library, the value of Bluray needs to be potent enough to overcome that £200 gap.
 
DrXym said:
The ads I've seen are somewhat inaccurate but not "strange and absurd". What's strange and absurd about breaking down the price of the PS3 compared to its competition, especially as GAME are trying to sell as many of them as they possibly can?
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I'd say they are strange and absurd because salespeople are supposed to leave their biases at home when they come to work and match the right product to the right customer according to their needs, means, and wants. Man, that profession has really gone into the toilet.
 
Setanta said:
GAME managers from what I have heard are vying for HUGE bonuses from Sony with the PS3, therefore justifying the strange and absurd pro-PS3 adverts in their stores which have been cropping up, such as the XB360/PS3 one previous. Strange that they get away with such things.
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Strange. Isn't that sort of biz practice illegal?
 
boutrosinit said:
Strange. Isn't that sort of biz practice illegal?
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No, those are called 'spiffs', and they're pretty standard. They usually have the nice effect of clusters of sales people stalking customers that are near 'spiffed' items while every other customer tries in ****ing vain to find someone to help them.
 
Segata Sanshiro said:
No, those are called 'spiffs', and they're pretty standard. They usually have the nice effect of clusters of sales people stalking customers that are near 'spiffed' items while every other customer tries in ****ing vain to find someone to help them.
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Actually, what is illegal is defaming one product in advertisements for another, which is apparently what happened with certain PS3 vs. X360 posters.
 
I've not heard much about the PS3 launch from people or people who are buying it. I know a friend whos brother-in-law is getting one but thats about it. Everyone else isnt aware or is waiting on a price drop.

Theres no hype here in the UK as far as I know. Also BTW Tesco's is no games-media giant ; P Game and Gamestation sell a metric tonne of games and systems in a day than Tesco do in a month. Per example, my branch of Tescos only got stock of 2 Wiis about a month ago.
 
NinSoX said:
Oops! Surprisingly you never showed up in that thread.
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Stalker?

Anyway, I rearly post in sales threads. But admit it, it would be quite funny since PS3 is de facto dead according to GAFAS. :)
 
Forsete said:
Stalker?

Anyway, I rearly post in sales threads. But admit it, it would be quite funny since PS3 is de facto dead according to GAFAS. :)
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:lol It's not like I searched every single page.

Click on the number of replies on front page for that thread --> list of users who participated --> Ctrl + F to find a name. :)
 
Segata Sanshiro said:
I thought we were GAG, the GAF Analyst Group?
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Squad little buddy, Squad!

Click on the number of replies on front page for that thread --> list of users who participated --> Ctrl + F to find a name.
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Awesome, so I indirectly stole some joules from you.
 
GAME managers from what I have heard are vying for HUGE bonuses from Sony with the PS3, therefore justifying the strange and absurd pro-PS3 adverts in their stores which have been cropping up, such as the XB360/PS3 one previous. Strange that they get away with such things.

Strange. Isn't that sort of biz practice illegal?
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It is illegal in some countries (for example, I know that it is illegal in Spain but legal in the US).
 
brain_stew said:
You can get a 360 with two games for £300, a similar PS3 package is going to pass the £500 mark. With 360 currently leveraging a better game library, the value of Bluray needs to be potent enough to overcome that £200 gap.
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some people on here need a reality check.

1) Initial launch machines will be bought by people with more money than sense. So shut up about the price already

2) Many of those people will already have a 360

3) Lots of other people that have been looking at the 360 demo pods in GAME every week will simply wait until Sony release their equivalent. It doesn't matter if the 360 has 'a better game library' - people will wait for Sony to buy the next PlayStation. And they will be happy in the knowledge that there will be plenty of games for it - there were for their PS1 and PS2.
 
mrklaw said:
It doesn't matter if the 360 has 'a better game library' - people will wait for Sony to buy the next PlayStation. And they will be happy in the knowledge that there will be plenty of games for it - there were for their PS1 and PS2.
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Honestly, how can you look at the Japanese and American markets and then just say that people will buy a console based on it's brand? Brand loyalty doesn't exist to anywhere near the degree say it does. People only bought Playstations for the big third party games that are more frequently appearing on other consoles.
 
Napoleonthechimp said:
It costs £425, and students pay no tax, some even survive off government grants... I do not want to pay for someone else to buy a PS3.
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I don't think students should be blowing £425 on a whim either but I'm sure there's some misunderstanding here.

Students do pay tax if they work. Income tax and NI, most definitely. I know I do. And thanks to student fees, I personally can't afford to live without a job. I think students are exempt from council tax though - is that what you're thinking of?

And if we're talking about University students, most take loans now, not grants... if they got a loan before last year, they'll be paying it back with interest for a significant amount of time. If they started Uni more recently they'll pay it all back in Graduate Tax (which comes off their earnings alongside the usual taxes). Graduates don't have to start paying either until they're earning 15k or something, but thats not exactly a high bar to reach -- and if they don't graduate, they may well expect to pay it back whatever way they can.

In all honesty -- going to University is a financially shitty think to take on. And unless you're doing something really rare, challenging and exclusive, vocational qualifications and apprenticeships seem to be much more rewarding than degrees these days. Students get a bad rap.

If you're concerned about people sponging off you - I suggest you think more about the ****s in this country who sponge off welfare and refuse to get a job even though they're perfectly able. In my experience thats much more common.
 
mrklaw said:
some people on here need a reality check.

1) Initial launch machines will be bought by people with more money than sense. So shut up about the price already

2) Many of those people will already have a 360

3) Lots of other people that have been looking at the 360 demo pods in GAME every week will simply wait until Sony release their equivalent. It doesn't matter if the 360 has 'a better game library' - people will wait for Sony to buy the next PlayStation. And they will be happy in the knowledge that there will be plenty of games for it - there were for their PS1 and PS2.
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1) I'm well aware Sony will sell a lot of consoles at launch, it'll probably be the highest selling console launch in history due to the overwhelming supply. Early adopters have plenty of cash to blow but its once you get past that first million when the difficulty starts. This is exactly the problem Sony are having in the US and Japan.

2) Why do you assume that people will just ignore the Xbox 360? The original Xbox never had the same support as the 360 nor did it cost almos £150 less. I think you'll agree that PES, FIFA and GTA are the biggest games in the UK correct? Well last generation every GTA took a year to get to the Xbox and PES only showed up towards the end of the console's life. This time around things are totally different no PES or FIFA for PS3 yet (though they will come) and GTA is launching on the 360 at the same time with extra content. All on a console that much cheaper. You can't just ignore that, competition is much stronger this time around (and this is even WITHOUT discussion of the Wii success) and Sony's offering is more expensive and less distinctive.

Plenty of people "assumed" like you do for the UK, that those who bought a PS2 would move over to the PS3 with ease in the USA and Japan, but look what is happening there.
 
brain_stew said:
You can get a 360 with two games for £300.
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Even less in some places.

Retailers here in the UK are heavily discounting 360 to shift dead stock.

It's just not selling.

It's no Wii and it certainly isn't Playstation.
 
Ok the demand grown but it's not like if they need more suply >_>
I've reserved mine last week and they said that i'll have one at launch. The guy just said that for most of clients the hardest thing is to find 600€ not a PS3 :lol
 
morph said:
Even less in some places.

Retailers here in the UK are heavily discounting 360 to shift dead stock.

It's just not selling.

It's no Wii and it certainly isn't Playstation.
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erm...no? Microsoft are throwing in free games and making their own bundles for retailers to sell. It's MS who are discounting the consoles, not the retailers. And it certainly isn't "dead stock". The 360s that come into my shop go within a few days. New stock comes in, then goes within a few days. We get 10-15 machines a week yet we don't have many in stock at any one time. We sell the machines we get, and we usually sell them with 3-4 games at a time

The 360 is selling very well in the UK, and has a very high attach rate (number of games bought per machine). FYI but the Attach Rate is probably the most important measure of a console's success
 
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