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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: Tuffty on February 02, 2007, 10:20:36 PM

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: Tuffty on February 02, 2007, 10:20:36 PM

HMV's online store is now taking pre-orders for PlayStation 3 - providing consumers are also willing to purchase a 4GB PSP pack for a total price of GBP 675. (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72601)

Quote from: GamesIndustry.biz

A Sony spokesperson told GamesIndustry.biz, "This is just one of a number of value added incentives that retailers will be offering to mark the launch of PS3."

Roger Federer would struggle to match that level of spin

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: Masabi on February 02, 2007, 10:53:34 PM

Um.  What?  "This is just one of a number of value added incentives that retailers will be offering to mark the launch of PS3."  Yeah, sounds like a real value- being forced to buy a PSP because the PSP is doing sucky.

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: pikapikapika on February 03, 2007, 12:09:44 AM

It's just sheer greed.

Sony Europe are the biggest dicks in the history of dickery.

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: randomness on February 03, 2007, 02:32:11 AM

hey PSP aint that bad, i got one... but still, making you buy one is just whack

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: JFC on February 03, 2007, 03:22:37 AM

So if you already have a PSP, you probably shouldn't even bother.

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: Tuffty on February 03, 2007, 06:55:44 PM

^ Exactly. This is a slap in the face for anyone that owns a PSP and wants a PS3, as they  are now forced to look somewhere else to get it because of this ridiculous scheme.

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: Himalia on February 03, 2007, 07:33:02 PM

Well i would imagine that other retailers wont be doing this offer and that HMV with not do well because of this.

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: Tanier on February 03, 2007, 07:38:43 PM

This is the craziest Thing I've Ever Heard :lol: Now Getting a PSP for free sounds like a deal to me ;)

Title: HMV refused PS3 pre-orders unless you buy a PSP too
Post by: NAzu on February 03, 2007, 08:13:08 PM

So they only offer the PS3 with the PSP and not without it? Sounds pretty ridiculous.

Picked this from Bit-Tech -> Wii is an impulse buy, says Sony (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/02/02/wii_is_an_impulse_buy_says_sony/)