Lol! My Pre-Ordered PS2 Just Arrived

[Soulflare]

I was the very first person to pre-order a PS2 at my local
Compusmart (a combined videogame/computer hardware shop) and
they guarenteed me that they'd be getting them during the
first week of November. I finally got the call today:

Dude: We have you listed for a PS2 pre-order, are you still
interested?

Me: <hesitation due to shocked suprise>...
You just go them in now??

Dude: Ummm... yeah.

Me: Well, considering that I picked one up 4 months
ago at another store... no.

Sony is suck. I guess I'm lucky that I just decided to
visit a local department store, launch day, on a whim and
walked out with their last remaining PS2 at 8:05am (the
store opened at 8:00 and had 12 systems). It's pretty sad
that it's late February and there are still thousands of
pre-ordered systems yet to be delivered.

 

[PhaZe]

Yea that is pathetic.
I don't understand why they had to limit them.

 

[MustangSVT]

so is that PS2 any good?

 

[Soulflare]

The PS2 isn't too bad, DVD playback is quite good but good games
are pretty slim pickings at the moment (SSX... and to a lesser
extent Sky Odyssey and Madden 2001). The first wave of good
games should be due out in a month or two including Zone of
Endors (includes MGS2 demo), Onimusha, The Bouncer and Gran
Turismo 3. A lot of the PS2's big guns are coming out in the
fall including Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2, 2nd gen. EA
sports games, Tony Hawk 3, Resident Evils, Lemans 24 Hours, along
with a potential dozen or so titles from Sega.

 

[AvesPKS]

Gran Turismo 3? Tony Hawk 3? Hell yes...

 

[shiznut123]

Tony Hawk 3!!! I'm jealous.

 

[divinemartyr]

<< DVD playback is quite good >>



I don't think I've seen cheap DVD players playback DVD's as bad as the PS2. It does not know how to interpret aspect ratios at ALL. Pictures almost ALWAYS appear distorted on the PS2 when I've watched DVD's on it. I'll stick with my Toshiba SD-3109.

dm

 

[Napalm381]

<< I don't understand why they had to limit them. >>

Because they could not physically manufacture enough units to satisfy the demand. If I remember, they had problems manufacturing the graphics processor.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Saddam was at the front of the line

 

[MajesticMoose]

You wanna know why there so scarce? It's because the iraqies(sp?) are buying them all up to make missle guidance systems. That and because sony is trying to manipulate the market into bearing a hire cost due to increased demand.

m00se

 

[Pastore]

napalm, they had 1 million at ship time, but they only sent 500,000 on launch day, and the rest each month after that... so yes, they did have them at launch...

 

[Raspewtin]

I've also found the DVD playback pretty bad with motion artifacts not visible in low-end players. However I believe PS2 is worth the cash anyway and will have lots of good games.