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"Buying at launch"

We all Remember the Launch of the Playstation 2,The whole thing was a complete mess and the only thing holding it together was the Preorder forms.There was a Major Production Problem and shortage of Hardware needed to make the PS2 which meant the demand was far more than the consoles availible. With this knowledge of limited amount and some very smart marketing by Sony everyone dashed into their nearest shop and attempted to buy one.

The lucky people who ordered theirs months before were the only people with a chance of getting theirs on launch day. And as for the People who ordered theirs from October onwards had only Sony's word of "Sometime before Christmas". Sony tryed really hard to keep this promise and as far as i know succceded. Costing £300 tagged along with a long wait and alot of hassle was it really worth getting at launch?

The Playstation 2 price has been knocked down by a tad but for £299 you can now get one with 2 controllers,8 mg Memory card and a remote control.Alot more games are now availible than there were on November 24th, The Hard Drive/Internet is on it's way and nearly all the PS2's problems are out in the open.

I couldn't wait to get my hands on my Playstation 2 but as fantastic as it is and putting aside the fact that it plays DVD's and enhances PS1 games, I think that we're all still after them long awaited PS2 titles and When these finally arrive the PS2 will be easily availible,alot cheaper and you can take it home the same day.

All I'm saying is the main reason we wanted a PS2 apart from the fact that it is the most amazing console ever is for the games and apart from a rare few out there isn't much that couldn't wait.If you are after Gran Turismo,MGS2 and all the other top Titles, It would have been alot easier to buy one when the console finally found it's feet.

Do you agree??

That too!

I'm going to buy a Maxx PC so I can get a free game.

What a tactic

...and nothing to do with "Oh, we'll give him a game cos he's just spent a fortune on one of our PC's!" ???

:-)

Reverse Jinxing.

Always works.

Not that SR thought "Right then, you think he won't win? Watch this"

That would be silly

But a nice long post there Wookie.
Lots of words, all in order with nice spacing.

Well done

Apparently not jinxy enough... :-)

Cheers guys... cheers, SR!

GAMEADAY
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Er...Macbeth and other jinxy stuff.

*hehehe*

Childish AND spiteful

"What you need you know I got..so hands up who wants to rock?"

You`ve convinced me (not that I needed convincing) that I made the right choice in November! That was an excellent post. I won`t say what it deserves, so that I don`t jinx it.

Yuu wuld fall down if eye smashed yoo in the fase

Come an ave a go if ya fink yer ard enuff...

Good.

We abhor well argued, intelligent posts here.

eye will smash yoor teef in

Wow, that one went on a bit longer than I realised... sorry!