Kotaku
What can you, Joe or Jane Gamer, expect from the PS3 launch? Our guess: a Best Buy show floor slick with congealing human gore and still quivering gibs, a morass of humanity gnashing and wailing near the pyramid of PS3 boxes in the middle like a Hieronymous Bosch nightmare. Expect machetes and eyeball gougings; skulls cracked open and gamers feasting on the goo inside to absorb the strength of their enemy. Shortages are going to be fierce... you'll need any edge you can get.
Naturally, the nation's retailers view this prospect with trepidation. Games First has a nice look up at what the nation's retailers are doing to brace themselves for the orgy of violence to be sparked by the PS3 launch, largely drawing from the lessons of past launches. How bleak is it going to be?
An internal Gamestop email expressed concern over how many PS3s their chain (which is the largest videogame retailer and includes Ebgames as well) would have available. A local store that received between 50 and 100 Xbox 360s at launch is expecting to get no more than 20 PS3s.
We've said it before: you're not going to get a PS3 at launch. Luckily, who wants one?
Retailers Brace for the PS3 [Games First]
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