gamestop won't be able to fill their preorders for ps3

[Lenardo]

gamestop/ebgames for those that don't know
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4934

apparently what they got for sale was less than their preorders...so if you preordered from them, hope you do not get a phonecall...


side note there are AT LEAST 196 ps1 and ps2 titles that do not work on the ps3 - some don't play at all, most have no sound etc...sony says it'll get fixed in a patch eventually.

[Wiretwister]

Anyone know of an ongoing list of games that ARE NOT currently backwards compatible?

[Lenardo]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/745/745439p1.html

they just listed a few:

# Tekken 5: A number of modes don't play background music properly.

# Xenosaga Episode II: The opening movie sometimes stops and sometimes doesn't properly play background music.

# Code Age Commanders: Problems (including data loss) with save game data.

# Radiata Stories: Background music during movie scenes may not play back properly.

# Star Ocean Till the End of Time (includes Directors Cut): Movie scenes may not have proper sound playback.

# Driving Emotion Type-S: BGM may not properly play back during races

# Gran Turismo 4: The screen may freeze following the title demo.

# Hot Shots Golf 3/4: Some sort of problem with the controls becoming unresponsive

# Operator's Side: The game freezes at the logo screen when started up with the Seamic controller

# Onimusha Dawn of Dreams: Screen will occasionally appear 2cm to the right

# Hyper Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition: The screen will not appear correctly in some instances. The S.F.II Movie cannot play properly.

# Megaman X7: There are times when the background music won't play properly

# Devil May Cry: The screen will sometimes freeze during the title demo

# Onimusha: During movie playback, the sound will occasionally stop

# Suikoden III: Cannot read PS1 data during the game.

# Silent Hill 2: When going from the title screen to the demo screen, the screen may freeze

are the "major" ones

[Wiretwister]

Alot of issues seem to be display/sound related so those should be easily patched and fixed.

I'm not too worried about those problems at the moment, unless I am missing something.

[GuardianX]

Originally Posted by Lenardo

gamestop/ebgames for those that don't know
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4934

apparently what they got for sale was less than their preorders...so if you preordered from them, hope you do not get a phonecall...


side note there are AT LEAST 196 ps1 and ps2 titles that do not work on the ps3 - some don't play at all, most have no sound etc...sony says it'll get fixed in a patch eventually.

Shocker, they have done this how many times for console releases?

I almost shocked they havn't gotten a lawsuit on their company simply because they lack the ability to do pre-orders on game systems without flaw. They need to take a page from the larger companies and kill off pre-orders, it will at least bring more customers into their store to buy random stuff.

[Soygen]

I agree that they should do away with pre-orders. Line up a day before the thing comes out and hand out tickets for the amount of systems you actually have, like Best Buy is doing.

[Tuco]

Pre-orders seem like a better idea for a retailer, as you put down a deposit for the game, and there's a number of people who pay the deposit but don't get the game.

[Ham n Cheese]

Man I'm glad I didn't pre order. Gamestop/EB keeps fucking customers with pre orders and keep getting away with it because people keep coming back for me ass rape

[Cadrid]

Is this a shortcoming of Sony or EBGames/GameStop? The article makes it sound like Sony ended up with fewer units than it initially inteded to deliver, but I understand that doesn't mean EBG/GS couldn't have taken more pre-orders than was reasonable/suggested, but there doesn't seem to be any definitive "who-dun'it".

[Angerz]

I'd assume its EB games problem, they oversell more than the airlines from what I hear.

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Man I'm glad I didn't pre order. Gamestop/EB keeps fucking customers with pre orders and keep getting away with it because people keep coming back for me ass rape

dude seriously, you don't know what you're talking about. They're actually asking employees to wait until second shipment. They pulled a MS. They're only going to be punching out 200k on launch, even though they said they were gonna launch 400k.

[Zehn - Vhex]

Haha, my brother got a call today. They asked him if he'd be willing to wait on his pre-order until the second shipment, in exchange they offered him 30 dollar game credit. My brother says "No, I'll take my pre-order thanks."

Why settle for +30 bucks when you can resell on ebay for +300? <3

[Zarcath]

Originally Posted by Akileese

dude seriously, you don't know what you're talking about. They're actually asking employees to wait until second shipment. They pulled a MS. They're only going to be punching out 200k on launch, even though they said they were gonna launch 400k.

Asking is different from Forcing. My friend was #11 for his preorder, he said 1 and 2 were to EB employees. He got a call and was told only 5 were coming in and he'd be in queue for the next shipment.

[Ham n Cheese]

Sorry to anger ebgames employee Akileese.

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Sorry to anger ebgames employee Akileese.

I fucking hate that place. But I hate retards more. It's not their fault. They waited until the last second and only took like, a dozen fucking pre-orders per store. What happens? Sony does what we all figured they'd do. They lied about how many they're shipping. I'm willing to bet that this is the last video game console system that EB/GS ever takes pre-orders from that doesn't have the name "Nintendo" in front of them. How can you blame a company that only took a dozen pre orders based on what Sony said they were shipping? Honestly, they should of known something was up when the Japan launch was undercut by 12k. Though it doesn't seem like a lot, it is when you consider it's 1/12 of their launch quantity. 1/12 of 400k I believe hovers around 30k systems which once again doesn't seem like much, until you factor in the point that this is america and we just have too many retaill chains around the country for 370k systems to go around.

I'm betting that number ends up being significantly lower than 370k though. Probably about 250k. They never said how many they cut, but a friend of mine had his cut and he was like, 6th in line. Assuming the employees take their systems, that's about 7-9 cut off each store (half of their pre-orders).

That being said in my fairly long rant, I'm not an angry EBgames employee because I quit long ago. People just need to realize that this is all Sony's fault and FOR ONCE EB/GS did all they could to prevent this.