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PS4 and X1 in store purchases?
Bored at work and was wondering if anyone is taking the risk and not pre ordered and going for the in store purchase.
I know both Sony and MS have said they hope to have some that you can buy on day one, but with demand for both high( not getting into who’s got more demand)I cant see many being available.
I’m sure there will be some at our local supermarkets camping out pre 12am launch.
I know both Sony and MS have said they hope to have some that you can buy on day one, but with demand for both high( not getting into who’s got more demand)I cant see many being available.
I’m sure there will be some at our local supermarkets camping out pre 12am launch.
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Iv been advised that if you want a better chance of getting your hands on a console on the day then you should try the shops that you wouldnt traditionally think would sell one such as Smyths Toys for instance.
Demand will be high not only from the early adopters but also from the e-bay crowd who will be looking to make big money from the desperate people who didnt pre order / couldnt get a pre order and want one in time for christmas.
I have seen that people are already paying silly money to buy someones pre order from them on e-bay.
Totally agree, think most people will think Asda or Tesco. But best best bet will be local smaller game shops. Mine near me reckons he'll have both on release day. He has been taking £20 deposits for pre orders and reckons that not everyone will want their pre order when it comes to paying out the full price.
Semi-related, but they also had a COD Vs BF4 pre order tally and COD was absolutely trouncing BF4. COD had like 40+ and BF4 had 3 (yes, 3)...I know that doesn't mean it's indicative of the whole country but I'd say EA's hopes of BF4 being a COD killer are a pipe dream based on that.
I've never played a Battlefield game as I've always been a COD fan but I haven't even played that for the last couple of years. However I did fire up COD4 the other week and found it really enjoyable, only seemed to have players who wanted to play "properly".
If I remember correctly a Battlefield game cam out on PS+ recently, I may check my download list and give it a shot at some point. I wouldn't mind actually trying it out.
Not sure how high street HMV's work whether they have only certain numbers but online they sold out some time ago.
HMV have a website but I can't find anywhere on there that you can actually actually carry out an online purchase.
I'm surprised they've not gone the way of Woolies tbh.
edit: wtf? they are going bust sooner than i thought!
I was actually informed the other day that HMV will be relaunching their website in the next few weeks and will be back to offering a full online shop, they're also re-introducing the HMV Pure rewards card, so it looks like they're actually on their way back up.
If you pre-order now you'll be in the second wave. The PS4 pre-orders sold out early August. The guy in my local game reckons just before Christmas for the second wave, if you're lucky. Because I missed the pre-order I've opted for an XBOX day one edition for now.
As for being in store I think supermarkets may have stock but that's sure to be eaten into by staff if they do. Any game shops who have any stock left will bundle it up to make a bigger profit I would imagine.
This is totally true, I work at Game and we have been instructed that apart from the pre-ordered consoles and a few that will be sold as single units (so not as to get in trouble with office of fair trading) the rest will be sold as bundles both "Official Game Bundles, Killzone/forza etc" and bundles that we have made up ourselves that feature our own accessories which cannot be sold apart.
Yeah I was thinking that this would probably be the case but I'm in a small town and I'm hoping that not as many people will be able to be affording the console around here straight away and so may get lucky with being able to get it before Xmas. To be honest though I'm not overly fussed if I have to wait as there aren't many games at release I really want. More will come out in the new year and so I may have to wait until then anyway.