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"Revolution released 16th June?"

According to Amazon France anyway.

munn wrote:
> gerrid wrote:
> Nah you pay whatever the price was when you ordered, unless it goes
> down, in which case you pay the lower price.
>
> Nope.
> They'll just refuse to sell it to you.
> Remember that retailers have a right to refuse purchase.

Doesn't always work like that.

A japanese company had to make a large loss on it's cameras after advertising them at the wrong price: it went to court (I think) and those who had ordered the cameras at the lower price received them for that sum (I know).

Depends on the point at which a legal contract is deemed to have been made.

It's likely to be set out like this:
The advertising of the products will be an 'invitation to treat' (not much legal significance)
You place the order, a legal 'offer'
At some point after that, amazon do something to constitue an 'acceptance'. Probably by confirming the order. Legal contract is made.

When exactly that last one happens though is dependent on a bunch of law I couldn't tell you about, and the company's terms and conditions.

Or they might have some clause preventing the pre-order being a contract at all.

On the other hand, there are plenty of regualtions about false advertising etc, which might complicate things further.


So in short, I don't know :^)

gerrid wrote:
> Nah you pay whatever the price was when you ordered, unless it goes
> down, in which case you pay the lower price.

Nope.
They'll just refuse to sell it to you.
Remember that retailers have a right to refuse purchase.

Animal Crossing did some damage too. Because everyone who wanted it got so tired of waiting and imported it, the EU sales figures were poor. If Nintendo hadn't waited so long it would have been a smash hit, but now they're reluctant to release games like that over here.

Dringo wrote:
> Giftpia is one of those games that the failure of Doshin helped
> prevent.

Doshin should never have been released here in my opinion. Credit to Ninty for taking a chance, but that chance should have been given to Animal Crossing instead like it was in the US. Interest is much higher in AC than Doshin.

Then that's pretty good then? $299 for a PS3 which will probably cost much more when released.

But nobody knows much about the console so it'd be best to wait.

Nah you pay whatever the price was when you ordered, unless it goes down, in which case you pay the lower price.

gerrid wrote:
> I 100% doubt this. Amazon also put up the price of the PS3 at $299,
> the same day as it updated the 360 price.

So you can pre-order the PS3 for $299, but if the price changed to a more likely $399 will you have to pay more or still pay just $299?

Giftpia is one of those games that the failure of Doshin helped prevent.

Really wanted that game as well :S

Still have a trailer for it somewhere on my PC. Looked like Animal Crossing but better..