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Fans Camping for a PS4 in Tokyo For Three Days; First Customer to Be Determined by Lottery

Fans have been camping at Sony's HQ in Ginza for 3 days now to be the first to purchase a PS4, but having gotten there first won't necessarily give them the right to be the first customers.

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majiebeast3718d ago

Japanese folks love camping outside stores. I dont expect the stampedes/zombie horde's like in Germany and France though.

Abriael3718d ago

They had tons of chances to preorder, those that didn't are crazy :D

majiebeast3718d ago

Well those PS4's sold out pretty fast, from what i remember.

dragonyght3718d ago

its the 8th gen. its a tradition by now most do it for the experience

Abriael3718d ago

@majiebeast: yeah but they put more batches on sales at least 5 times on Amazon only, and the last one lasted about 24 hours.

We can pretty much assume that almost everyone that wanted to preorder had a chance to.

Kingthrash3603718d ago

i remember thos days...waiting in line for a ps4....seems like just yesterday.

ot: yeah preorder is the way to go, but just from the anticipation the ps4 looks to repeat the 1mil in a day launch. so happy for them...its well deserved.

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GutZ313718d ago

Not just the japanese that camp outside stores. USA BABY!

kayoss3717d ago

"Japanese folks love camping outside stores".
Black friday in the USA say hello. Its like watching the running of the bulls, but with humans trying to kill whoever gets in their way.

jhoward5853718d ago (Edited 3718d ago )

A couple of days camp for the PS4 ain't bad compared to those who sleep in front of the apple store for over 20 days for an iPhone.

kingdom183718d ago

I like my iPhone considering it was free on contract but... 20 days? o.O Are people that... I don't know of what word to describe that... Crazy? Stupid?

SirBradders3717d ago

Nothing is free in life you still pay for it one way or another ultimately.

kingdom183717d ago

@SirBradders, I know, but as in getting a phone on a contract, it was free. Technically, of course its not. But my phone bill just went up about $10 so I can't complain.

wsoutlaw873718d ago

they dont announce the iphone 20 days before the release so im afraid thats a bit of an exaggeration

jhoward5853718d ago

I have no reason to lie or exaggerate.

Bathyj3718d ago

I've told him a million times not to exaggerate.

wsoutlaw873718d ago (Edited 3718d ago )

o then you're just wrong

rayzorn3717d ago

hell im sitting outside the apple store now waiting for the 6 to come out.

lmao

f apple im going samsung next time this iphone isnt that great.

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ritsuka6663717d ago

People line up for every console launch anyway,no suprise here.

chikane3718d ago

So happy for my follow gamer's out in Jp they finally get to experience the amazing ps4

its happening
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BG115793718d ago

I know that the console is awesome, but this is madness!

smt_Nocturne3717d ago (Edited 3717d ago )

madness!?
THIS IS PS4

BG115793717d ago

Never had so many dislikes. ^^

Now the only thing missing is the obligatory gif of the 300 movie, where Leonidas is PS4 and the envoy is the Xbone, and this would be perfect. ^^

bligmerk3718d ago

This is the first console launch that pre-orders actually worked and it was the first time for a lot of people where the pre-order got shipped to their house versus having to go down to a store to pick it up. This is going to be the first console launch for Japan where Amazon JP got huge allocations, so they are also going to experience what its like to get a pre-order delivered to your front door. There will still be huge crowds trying to get launch units off the shelf. It's just a tradition that happens to be a social event also.

Ripsta7th3718d ago

Yeah it was awesome, had mines delivered around 9 am on launch day by UPS

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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TopSpin 2K25 Review - Serving Up a Nice Reboot | MP1st

TopSpin 2K25 Review - After a very long hiatus, TopSpin is back! Can Hangar 13 bring the venerable tennis series back to relevance?

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0074h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows904h ago(Edited 4h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0072h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19892h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw4h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno4h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy853h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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