PS3 hopefuls, part II

We'll try not to bother you with every single second of these guy's Best Buy exploits, but a few soundbites TG Daily picked up from the Burbank PS3 campers the other day were just too good pass up. Apparently one of the campers called in sick (for two weeks?), and had to postpone his engagement to divert the ring fund to a PlayStation 3, while another guy quit his job altogether. Hit the read link for a full video of these crazies, who fend off naysayers saying "They look at us like we have nothing to do... but we are getting a PlayStation 3." Well, we would sure hope so!

[Alex @ Nov 10th 2006 5:58PM]

Lol. Are they really that desperate? Why don't they just wait a couple months, or buy one for 5 grand on ebay? If they quit their jobs it would've been a better deal to keep it and get an overpriced ebay PS3.

[Todd @ Nov 10th 2006 6:00PM]

They're either being paid by Sony or they are truly lost - pointless either way.

I will buy all those guys PS3s if they will go spend the same two weeks volunteering at a legit charity somewhere.

[John Doe @ Nov 10th 2006 6:02PM]

Notice the age of these people. Basically you have the disposable income segment who will be the only people willing to blow $600 on a PS3.

[Cherrio @ Nov 10th 2006 6:04PM]

I've got one word, Suckers!

[shblay @ Nov 10th 2006 6:08PM]

wow. how stupid can people be? They are seriously some of the dumbest sounding people I've ever seen. I pray that they never have kids and pass on their idiocy.

[Esat @ Nov 10th 2006 6:08PM]

Surely NO human being could possibly be this stupid, this thick. Surely it HAS to be Sony paying these guys off. I find it hard to believe that anyone's brain could possibly even begin to comprehend that quitting their job and livelyhood is a good idea. If I was the wife to be of that guy I'd dump his ass immediately. Let him have a honey moon with his PS3. gonna be a looonely night.

[funkycoldm3dina @ Nov 10th 2006 6:16PM]

@Esat hey nice name. my late uncle was an Esat back in zimbabwe. Well i have one thing to say and it has to be this... how come they ain't got no psp's to play with. so much for being a gamer. to be honest how can he let people know that he has told his employer that he is sick someone is bound to grass him up or worse the boss drives by. total was of time if you ask me. and @todd? you got it in one they should do some productive stuff instead of this.

[Jonathan Keim @ Nov 10th 2006 6:16PM]

You guys have to remember that they guy who quit his job isn't making $100,000 a year. More then likely he is working at minimum wage.

[zeno48 @ Nov 10th 2006 8:01PM]

Dude these guy are pathetic and truely show that they have no lives. What kind of person does this kinds of things. Seriosly quitting your job? Bull shit, But man these guys are pretty messed up why can't they just wait.

[Wildside @ Nov 10th 2006 6:31PM]

hell i would wait in line for Wii, but the Best Buy in Moreno Valley, CA isnt hosting a midnight launch.

WTF!!!!!???

[Guru G @ Nov 10th 2006 6:32PM]

considering the above story, and stories about ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN LINe in japan( http://kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/ps3-jpn-launch-a-1000-of-them-213932.php) , i am even more sure that the atari guy (bushnell) was spot on. the ps3 definitely wont sell out at launch...

[jb @ Nov 10th 2006 6:35PM]

How cheap is the engagment ring that he is using the funds to partly pay for his PS3.

I bet his girlfriend is stoked she was getting a $300 ring from QVC.

[Paul @ Nov 10th 2006 7:11PM]

If the price of the ring is what is most important to you and most other people then it could explain the high rate of divorce we have right now...

[&& @ Nov 10th 2006 6:36PM]

It's the 10th. The PS3 comes out the...16th or so? Is there something I'm not getting here, or are these people really as stupid as I think they are?

[Porsche 911 @ Nov 11th 2006 3:13PM]

So, are the Xbox360 fans also stupid, the ones who also waited for days for the system to come out, or are you just an Xbox360 fanboy who is being paid by Microsoft to talk crap about the PS3?

[PistolPeet @ Nov 10th 2006 6:37PM]

"Apparently one of the campers called in sick"

At first I thought this meant called in sick to the queue, like a really lazy version of camping outside a store.

Imagine the phone-call his Mum would've made to the guy in front...

[apeguero @ Nov 10th 2006 6:39PM]

One word: LOSERS!

Damn. That guy gave up his engagement for the PS3? I can't imagine a dumb-ass cholo like that gettin' putty anyways! Let's hope his so-called "girlfriend" (if she really exist), will dump his stupid ass altogether so, like shblay said above, he won't pass his useless genes on to our gene pool.

Wow! Just wait for your own people. What's waiting 2 more months if you already waited like 2 years to begin with. Get some putty and enjoy that sport while you wait for your PS3, eh?

[kpluck @ Nov 10th 2006 6:42PM]

Idiots. If they would have worked instead of sitting in line they could have earned enough money to buy an Xbox 360 to use while they wait for the PS3 to get greater availability.

[Porsche 911 @ Nov 11th 2006 3:07PM]

That was so funny I forgot to laugh.

[mespinosam @ Nov 10th 2006 6:42PM]

Get a Life

[Will @ Nov 10th 2006 6:52PM]

How do they go to the washroom?

[bob dole @ Nov 10th 2006 6:55PM]

Kids, kids!, don't be jealous just because u wont get one for xmas! eheheh

[gee @ Nov 10th 2006 7:03PM]

all i can say is: get a life! what a pack of fools

[KORY @ Nov 10th 2006 7:11PM]

Why are there so many haters on the PS3? I'm glad to see so much hype and anticipation for the launch. Are 360 owners just jealous their system has failed to match the sales figures for the first xbox?

I can't wait to play FALL OF MAN RESISTANCE. I am a hard-core gamer and thought every RATCHET and CLANK stood in the elite hall of games ever made. INSOMNIAC games will deliver gameplay that makes it worth owning a PS3.

Gears of War? I bought it and it's a quality game. It does not deserve all the hype it gets. Personally, LOST PLANET the demo plays way better mechanically. And as for online play--not campaign mode--BATTLEFIELD 2 is the best game on the 360 even though it is second-rate to the PC version.

I mention this because I own a 360 and still have pre-ordered a PS3 and WII. But there are far too many TROLLS that must be paid by Microsoft to spend so much time on video game boards attempting to trash the PLAYSTATION.

Want to talk about great games? Currently, the best video games are still on last generation systems.

RESIDENT EVIL 4 for the GAMECUBE--way better graphically and A.I. than the ps2 version.

KATAMARI!!!

SHADOW OF COLOSSUS. WOW! Just amazing. It's worth buying a PS3 just to play it on backwards compatibility alone. Of course, I'm exaggerating a bit here.

Point being you judge a system by the games. And if you think PS3 will fail to deliver you really have blind allegiance to Microsoft.

[Rick Person @ Nov 10th 2006 7:19PM]

You're one of the guys in line right, typing these comments from your laptop?

[riggs @ Nov 10th 2006 7:12PM]

i didnt see this much hate when people were waiting in line for the 360...seriously, the users on this website are a bunch of moronic fickle people. stop contradicting yourselves.

[Alex @ Nov 10th 2006 7:19PM]

To riggs:

Probably a lot of people didn't mind people camping for the 360 because they thought it wouldn't be too hard to get one. Now everyone is thinking that the people waiting in lines are idiots because they really want a PS3!!!! i really want to get one too, And this is destroying my chance of getting one for xmas.

[Bill @ Nov 10th 2006 7:35PM]

Waiting in line for an entire week? Damn, I'm not going to any Best Buys on the 16th, because by then these guys are going to REEK from not taking any showers.

[Alden @ Nov 10th 2006 7:38PM]

that was the worst reporting ever.

There, see, im not hating on the ps3.

[MaX PL @ Nov 10th 2006 7:42PM]

those bums are all full of shit.

they dont have jobs, they dont have any engagements. theyre all lazy ass spicks in california trying to make some easy money.

"oh man i cant buy my fiance an engagement ring". oh please. thats the biggest bunch of bullshit ive ever heard.

i can almost guarantee every single one of those people are selling them on ebay.

every excuse made was an attempt to hide the fact that theyre losers with nothing to do so they'll sit in front of a store just to make a few hundred dollars.

working that long would be a bigger payoff and that pretty much shows theyre lazy and dont have any desire to work.

[tekdroid @ Nov 10th 2006 7:42PM]

oh god that video is pure hilarity.

Everyone knows the only products worthy of this worship are the Zune or the iPod ;) The 10th one in line shown at the end of that video was DVD Jon! I'm sure of it! :p

Concluding thoughts: Blu-Ray!!!!

[bob nojob @ Nov 10th 2006 8:22PM]

I was there yesterday to pick up a copy of Gears of War. There were news trucks and a Best Buy employee standing guard and no less than 20 or so Dudes (not a girl in sight) lined up in lawn chairs waiting. I could not believe it. I don't know about Sony paying them to do it as some have suggested. I have faith that there are humans so lame that they would actually do this just to be first in line for a PS3. The 9 days would be better spent working so you can afford to pay for an overpriced ebay PS3.

[Arno @ Nov 10th 2006 8:22PM]

Hmmm, seems kind of a waste.

Why wait on line for over a week? I mean if you want a great game experience, just go down to your local electronics store, pick up a Xbox 360 and a copy of Gears of War and be done with it.

[Zhoe Garcia @ Nov 10th 2006 8:28PM]

is it me, or do they look/talk like a group of retards? (blue ray baby!!) lmao .. dipshits.

[Oddmanout @ Nov 10th 2006 8:50PM]

And we all thought that as far as video games went, Jack Thompson was the biggest idiot on the planet...


But then again, let's put this in perspective. Sure, these guys values are questionable at best if they are somehow deciding a video game system is worth more than gainful employment and an (ostensibly) fullfilling relationship (or really when you get down to it, a couple extra months ownership of said system is what their after), but those aren't the worst things people do involving video games. I mean people have been so obssessed with MMORPs that they've starved to death...or neglected their kids and such. And even if they don't die, tons of 'hardcore gamers' sit around and play for hours on end, which is quite unhealthy in the longer run in many ways. These guys are just getting a bit more publicity than most.

But more than being outrageous I think these particular guys are just way to impulsive. I'm all for living your dreams, but a bit more planning makes for a much more successful venture.

If the guy was getting married, he could have just let everyone know he wanted a PS3 for his wedding present. Heck is honey might have even contrived a way to buy it for him. He could then have his 'tang and play video games too. Heck a year after launch he'd be playing the same games but at least he'd have a wife to microwave his Hot Pockets or burritos or whatever so he wouldn't have to hit pause...
And the idiot who quit his job...Dude, make a deal with your boss. 2 weeks of double time, 10 consecutive days off 2 weeks more of double time.
10 consecutive days off probably only means 7 - 8 actual extra days off if you dovetail it in cleverly with your regular days off. Take all that extra cash, fly out to Japan 3 days before launch. Get in line (they didn't start forming here until yesterday...), wait three days, buy your PS3, fly home the same day. Sit on your game obsessed punk ass for the next 5 days and play crappy launch titles to your hearts content. Get back to work and complete your deal, 2 more weeks of double shifts. Not only do you now have a PS3, you got it before anyone else (in his immediate area anyway). You STILL have a job, and the overtime defrays most if not all of the extra ~$1000 in travel costs and lost work hours, and you've got a fantastic 'Hardcore Gamer' story to tell/sell to numerous blogs and the like. Much better sitch than being broke, unemployed, and looking like a fool on the internet.

But then, who am I to talk...I quit my job and passed up a marriage so I could spend a year in Japan. And as far as I'm concerned it was worth every second (of the 14 out of 15 months that have passed) and every cent of the $30K it cost.

But that's sort of an apples to oranges kind of thing I guess...I just hope those guys find their PS3 as fulfilling...

[paul Martinez @ Nov 10th 2006 8:57PM]

my roomate works at my local target and they just got their shipment in, they only got ten ps3's, there are going to be a lot of pissed off people in that best buy line.

[mmmmm @ Nov 10th 2006 9:09PM]

I'd trade any girlfriend for a ps3, no stupid little kiss can replace a brand new $600 machine.

[Aaron @ Nov 11th 2006 1:55AM]

Dude, I hope one day you understand what you just said. That's insane.

[MaX PL @ Nov 10th 2006 9:19PM]

zhoe garcia,

exactly what i thought at first too!

theyre just retarded lazy ass douchebags with nothing better to do. either they want this so they can play all day, or they want to sell it.

regardless of which, we know for a fact that theyre all lazy and stupid based on their responses.

[Chris @ Nov 10th 2006 11:07PM]

These are the kinds of losers that shoot the mom trying to get one for her son.

[MaX PL @ Nov 10th 2006 11:12PM]

lmfao. they got kicked out. they were considered "loitering".

the article is over at kotaku. LMFAO.

cant line up til the day of release.

[jakeplisken @ Nov 10th 2006 11:36PM]

LOL!
But I do feel sorry for them in more ways then one.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/ps3-campers-removed-from-burbank-best-buy-214082.php

[YOYO @ Nov 11th 2006 12:07AM]

Well I have to give it to these guys, at least they are truly passionate about something, maybe we do not agree with whatever that something is but i rather be passionate about anything in life that just sit around and criticize everybody that do not see things the same way I do so for everyone thats trashing these guys for standing out all day and night for something so "stupid" as a PS3 I wish you can be passionate about anything in life and be willing to do something for it instead of sitting around on your fat ass surfing the net and posting stupid comments about people who are actually out there accomplishing something...

SUCKAS!

[darius @ Nov 11th 2006 12:10AM]

I'm pretty sure the line will grow, and these "suckers" will be envied by the masses.

[Andir3.0 @ Nov 11th 2006 1:17AM]

It shows you where the maturity lies...

[E @ Nov 11th 2006 11:25AM]

YoYo

Yeah that's probably the dumbest comment I have read in a while.

Passion is fine, but when you are quitting your job, buying a PS3 instead of an engagement ring (yeah THAT girl is soooo lucky, he really cares), all for a GAME CONSOLE that will be readily available by waiting a month, basically, you're a loser.

I don't get the impression that these young men have anything else going for them such as a decent job or education, and that's sad.

I feel sorry for them, but I still think they are morons. Maybe there should be a government program that gives out PS3's for the poor, downtrodden 20 year old males who have no direction in life.

[J @ Nov 11th 2006 2:28PM]

No one is paying them off I garuntee it. They are just that dumb. PS3 will be here in full force in 2007. I hope Wii and 360 puts such a dent into sony that they make a last minute scramble and drop the price just like they did for japan.

[Porsche 911 @ Nov 11th 2006 3:18PM]

If people can wait outside for many days for the PS3 to be released, then this must be an awesome product. I do not know why Xbox360�s fanboys are bitching; I think they are just jealous or being paid by Microsoft to bitch about the PS3.

[&& @ Nov 11th 2006 3:30PM]

Porsche911, you don't think that it is wrong to quit your job or postpone engagements for a video game console? And yes, I do think that these people are being very stupid indeed. I understand people waiting in line for a day, MAYBE two....but a whole week?

I did the math...those who are planning to sell it immediately are actually quite smart. If they sold it for $5k on ebay (4400 profit) after waiting for 6 days, it'd come out to just over $30 an hour. Probably much more than whatever they're making now.

And yes, I live in Redmond. BFD.

[Porsche 911 @ Nov 11th 2006 4:23PM]

I know this is stupid, I agree, however, the X360�s fans did the same. Quitting your job and relationship sucks, I guess PS3 is that awesome, people are willing to do anything to get their hands on one.

BTW, why do people buy video games on eBay, now that is stupid, worse than waiting outside, look at me for an example, I got my X360 from a standard retail store when the X360 quantity went up. Buying an overpriced system is pathetic and dumb, I remembered the X360s on eBay.