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Successes and excesses of Playstation 2 in USA
The official launch in America North of playstation the 2 e' happened in the night between 25 Mercoledi' and 26 Giovedi' October. The consul to disposition of the public American 500.000 were alone and as brought back from Playreview gia' in the past numbers the storees that had decided not to carry out a presale campaign have been literally overflowed from visitors in tail hours and hours before the opening and have exausted very soon every supply. Interesting history have been repeated frequent in these days on the web: from persons who have girovagato in the night in it tries of Playstation 2, to persons who have not succeeded to otterla and have begun to scatter to messages of insult against the Sony on Bullettin Boards (showcases of messages), until storys from legends to which she does not know if not to believe or not, like that one of a child stopped and threatened from two men masked and armed with mazzwe from baseball, than e' be forced to yield own Playstation 2.
Between the little situated that has decided to offer sale via Internet there was Toysrus.com that has struck every record: the number of put Playstation 2 to disposition on the web (not revealed) e' be sold in less than 30 second ones from the launch! Even the same company e' remained been strange from the received electronic onslaught.
Some have quite taken advantage of the occasion like good investment for the future, like Scott student Kemper to the universita one of the Kansans, than, beyond to mettersi in tail in the first hours of the mattino for Playstation 2, consul for he has quite paid 50 dollars other 2 persons in order to acquire (in fact many storees has limited the purchase to one consul for person). And all single in sight of the successive resale of the consul to 1000 dollars one (with therefore 650 dollars of gain) for potersi to pay the studies for some month. An optimal transaction if the demanded minimal engagement is considered...
And like its buyers, hundreds of other persons were disposed to all in the successive days to the launch. Beyond to very many declarations of persons who were ready to disburse also 500 dolalri (beyond 1 million and 100 mila Liras), concrete demonstrations of the climate of hype have been had also that it had been created.
E-bay (situated of auctions piu' famous in America) gia' in the afternoon of Giovedi' 26 October had piu' of 300 various auctions in course for sale of Playstation 2. And the auction figures were gia' very beyond the 900 dollars (beyond 2 million Liras), cioe' piu' of three times the official price of sale. And sight the increasing question, many quite replaced in sale the consul endured after averle acquired.
The official data of the search institute American NPD Intelect show that the official total of Sony sales has exceeded 165 million dollars (beyond 385 billions of Liras) in the three days between the 26 and 28 October. The increment of consul sales, you play and accessories e' be of 117%, and as attended Playstation 2 it has made it from landladies with beyond 52% of the total of sales.
And e' confirmed also a data previewed from Playreview and cioe' that to benefit of the launch of Playstation 2 (and the deficiency of supplyes) they would have been also the direct contenders. In the same period of three days in fact, also Sega Dreamcast has seen an increase unexpected of the sales of 25%, probable " gift " Sony with customers who indispettiti will have opted for the present alternative in the storees and cioe' the Dreamcast.
What is making Sony in order to ricucire this tear in the production? You read our article that it explains it: Playstation 2 soon made in Taiwan!