Fry's Bundling 8 games with PS3 and 5 Games with Wii as MANDATORY purchases

[SirFozzie]

Wow, this is a real dickery move..

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/rumor-frys-forcing-mega-ps3wii-bundles-in-store-214459.php

Is this even legal? (It might be if they didn't take preorders, but if they did, wow..

[General Mike]

EB required people to order a certain ammount of games, 3 I believe, in 2001 when the XBox came out.

8 PS3 games is just an unrealistic ammount tho. I couldn't even tell you 2 PS3 games I want, and I need a PS3 to replace my stolen video game systems. :(

[Daimyo]

Other than for people who put down pre-order deposits on the assumption that there would be no bundle, I have no problem with bundles.

New console releases are weird... the supply is so low and demand is so high which should drive up the price, but I guess the retail stores are locked into the MSRP. This is just their way of raising the price without actually doing so.

[Kodos]

Yep. The days of needing to get a console at launch are gone.

[Anthony]

Yep. The days of needing to get a console at launch are gone.

i agree w/ the alien

[johneh]

Most of the Japanese PS3 buyers last week were for resale - there are some links on the Dubiousquality blog about it.

[stevew]

Foz-
Wouldn't you prefer that the gaming systems actually went to people who want to buy them and play games on them, as opposed to the pre-order ebay sale lowlifes?

I should probably read the whole article, but I don't necessarily have a problem with a store requiring you to buy X amount of semi-profitable add ons if they have to sell you one system probably at a loss.

[stevew]

I believe compUSA was requiring you to buy a sony HDTV if you wanted first crack at a ps3 there.

[Anthony]

how is this any different from ebayers making huge profits off of people willing to spend upwards of $1,000 for next gen systems? gamestores just trying to get a piece of the pie.

[johneh]

I will never understand the frenzy to buy the system the day it is released.

You can just wait 2 months & pay regular retail price & not have to stand in line for 3 days outside the store & there will be plenty of reviews out on the games.

[SackAttack]

I just got off work an hour ago.

There were 30 people standing around outside the store waiting for management to leave so they could 'officially' start camping out for a system they can't even buy until 8 am Friday.

This is madness.

[Glengoyne]

One of my employees called in sick today, but he is actually second in line at some store waiting for freaking ever to purchase a PS3 to sell on ebay.

[SackAttack]

Gonna do anything about it?

[Kodos]

Fire him!

[BrianD]

Make him split the profit with you?

[DanGarion]

Well honestly is there anything stopping these stores from selling the consoles for more then the MSRP?

[SackAttack]

Well, they could find that it takes Sony a while to restock them.

[sabotai]

IThis is madness.

Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!!!

[kingfc22]

We have had 40 people camping outside our store since Tuesday morning. FREAKS!