Retail hatorade. Bricks-and-mortar chain HMV is offering a big pricey bundle that includes a 60GB PLAYSTATION 3, a 4GB PSP and two PSP games for £674.99 (US $1,327). The deal pretty much guaranteed shoppers a PS3 on launch day if they forked over the cash. A mass HMV email was sent out to 5,000 "lucky few" with purchase details. So what do other British sellers think? Choices UK negs the idea and won't be following in HMV's bundled footsteps. The reason being that the outlets says it "won't hold... customers to ransom." Virgin Megastore's Stephen Lynn chimes in, saying:

HMV's deal is up to them at the end of the day, but it's not the sort of thing we'd offer our customers because we're trying to keep things simple on PS3. We wouldn't want to risk confusing our customers over any product — let alone one of this expense.

Eh... People aren't really going to buy this silly HMV bundle, are they? Brian Ashcraft

Retailers Hate PS3 Bundle [MCVUK via QJ.NET]

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