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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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majiebeast3870d ago

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

Abriael3870d ago

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

majiebeast3870d ago

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

dragonyght3870d ago

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

Abriael3870d 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.

Kingthrash3603870d 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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GutZ313870d ago

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

kayoss3869d 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.

jhoward5853870d ago (Edited 3870d 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.

kingdom183870d 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?

SirBradders3869d ago

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

kingdom183869d 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.

wsoutlaw873870d ago

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

jhoward5853869d ago

I have no reason to lie or exaggerate.

Bathyj3869d ago

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

wsoutlaw873869d ago (Edited 3869d ago )

o then you're just wrong

rayzorn3869d 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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ritsuka6663869d ago

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

chikane3870d ago

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

its happening
http://img.gawkerassets.com...

BG115793870d ago

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

smt_Nocturne3869d ago (Edited 3869d ago )

madness!?
THIS IS PS4

BG115793869d 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. ^^

bligmerk3870d 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.

Ripsta7th3870d ago

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

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Game Journalism is too corporate to trust

Game reviews have been around since the mid-1970s. Play Meter was the first of its kind. During their time, it was mainly coin-operated machines that were covered, as certain arcade games that many of us consider classics such as Space Invaders were popular. Other publications sprang up, such as Arcade Alley in 1979. From then on, gaming journalism was on the rise. Electronic Games Magazine, Famitsu, The Games Machine, Nintendo Power, and others all gave way to gaming journalism’s growing popularity and importance. In the beginning, gaming journalism was about the love of the games, the history of the product, and giving potential consumers genuine insight. The passion was there. The commitment was there. The insight was there. And most importantly, the trust was there.

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jznrpg21h ago

That and a bunch of haters have made gaming a big negative cesspool.

lodossrage20h ago

True, that's almost as much of a problem as the gaming media itself

thorstein1h ago

They've become nothing more than corporate shills. Rather than speaking truth to power, they're just looking at the latest clickbait no matter how false it is.

The straight up lies are annoying. Then journalists claim that a lie is an opinion. Um... no.

Tacoboto7m ago

And you yourself straight up lie as well to defend Sony with PSN logins on Steam.

Rich take, bro.

thorstein5m ago

Sure thing, guy. Whatever you say.

Not the truth of the matter, but repeating lies spread on the internet is much more important to people like you.

Tell me again how 195-72=180.

gold_drake52m ago

yea its been like this for years and only has gotten worse during covid.

they are sometimes worse than celeb. trash news ha.

"you will NOT believe what the DEV of XYZ said"

or and those are my favourites,

"XYZ game gets REMASTER TREATMENT" and you click on the link and its just a god damn mod ha.

Profchaos23m ago

The gaming landscape today is full of corporations trying to suck as much money out of us as possible while giving us as little as possible in return that's the biggest problem I see right now and the fact the journos should be the ones calling the gross practices out now suckle at the teat of the publishers to stay in favour and maintain working relationships to avoid being blacklisted for reviews and preview events show their interests do not align with ours.

HankHill6m ago

Consume the new product and don't ask any questions.

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MechWarrior 5: Clans Preview - A narrative heavy sci-fi epic | TheSixthAxis

TSA writes: MechWarrior 5: Clans gives a new jumping on point for players looking to explore the stompy mech universae with a single-player story.

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World War Z: Aftermath's Free Extinction Update Adds New Mode, Mutators, and More

Available today on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 or PC, is the Extinction update for World War Z: Aftermath.

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