PS3 sells out at EBGames/Gamestop
The rumors are true. And if you do not have a PS3 preorder receipt from Gamestop or EBGames you won’t ever get one now. Just 24 hours after the top video game stores announced that they would be accepting PS3 pre-orders from today, Tuesday, October 10 they have sold out. The stores wanted a lump sum of $ 100 for a preorder of Sony‘s next generation Playstation console which will hit the shelves of North American stores on November 17th this year and only a limited number of PS3 consoles were available for each EBGames/Gamestop store, leading gamers into a mini-lottery that they had a very small chance of winning.
The more addicted gamers from across the US camped out overnight and were first in the stores when they opened to pay their $ 100 deposit and get a place on the golden PS3 pre-order list for the $ 599 60GB version of the console, fighting crowds, and limited supply which ranged from four at a store (in Detroit) to 16 (at a store in Seattle, Washington).
A Gamestop representative told IGN that each store had a quota of “no less than eight pre-orders or up to 16. The number allocated is based on store location and traffic.” The rep went on to state that currently pre-orders for PS3 were closed. Currently, there are no pre-orders available in Canada but the representative did say that Canadian PS3 pre-orders will be “available as soon as possible.” But surely if no store had less than eight pre-orders, how did that store a Detroit only have four available? Let’s hope that it wasn’t those dreaded EBGames employees buying all the stock.
Via IGN
The rumors are true. And if you do not have a PS3 preorder receipt from Gamestop or EBGames you won’t ever get one now. Just 24 hours after the top video game stores announced that they would be accepting PS3 pre-orders from today, Tuesday, October 10 they have sold out. The stores wanted a lump sum of $ 100 for a preorder of Sony‘s next generation Playstation console which will hit the shelves of North American stores on November 17th this year and only a limited number of PS3 consoles were available for each EBGames/Gamestop store, leading gamers into a mini-lottery that they had a very small chance of winning.
The more addicted gamers from across the US camped out overnight and were first in the stores when they opened to pay their $ 100 deposit and get a place on the golden PS3 pre-order list for the $ 599 60GB version of the console, fighting crowds, and limited supply which ranged from four at a store (in Detroit) to 16 (at a store in Seattle, Washington).
A Gamestop representative told IGN that each store had a quota of “no less than eight pre-orders or up to 16. The number allocated is based on store location and traffic.” The rep went on to state that currently pre-orders for PS3 were closed. Currently, there are no pre-orders available in Canada but the representative did say that Canadian PS3 pre-orders will be “available as soon as possible.” But surely if no store had less than eight pre-orders, how did that store a Detroit only have four available? Let’s hope that it wasn’t those dreaded EBGames employees buying all the stock.
Via IGN