The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Abefroman

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Seems reasonable. I know all of 5 people that preordered a PS4 online through Amazon, and 1 already has theirs as of this morning. I bet a lot of people have them already (not to mention all the contest winners from Taco Bell and such that were getting them early)
I'm a little worried. Common sense tells me you make sure the PS4's that the review sites get are top notch and test them. It's like serving the judges on Top Chef raw chicken.
 

Daezuel

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PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 2
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 1
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 4
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 2

I'm the guy on The Price is Right who bets a dollar in hopes that everyone goes over!
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 3
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 2
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 5
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 3

I'm the dick on The Price is Right who bets a dollar more than the guy that bets a dollar in hopes that everyone goes over and to screw over the first guy!
 

Utnayan

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I'm a little worried. Common sense tells me you make sure the PS4's that the review sites get are top notch and test them. It's like serving the judges on Top Chef raw chicken.
Yeah I was going to say... If PS4's are defective at the testing table, that's pretty awful.

This may get good.

I'd be pissed if I had pre-ordered and all of a sudden I cannot find a replacement and have to wait for a coffin to send it all back in on Launch day. I bet that happens to at least 5 people here.

Contest addendum Tuco. Along with sales figures, how many will have bricked consoles from the rerolled forums. And if Sean gets one, he can be the tie breaker in the bracket.

Rerolled defective units: 9. Sean: Yes.
 

Valos

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PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 5,565,000
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 3,345,000
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 8,850,000
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 6,820,000
 

Eonan

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PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 6 Million
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 4.2 million
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 13 Million
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 8.1 Million
 

Utnayan

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I am wondering if this is a paid for contest by Sony to take eyes off the glaring PS4 problems.
 

DickTrickle

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PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 3
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 2
PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 5
Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 3

I'm the dick on The Price is Right who bets a dollar more than the guy that bets a dollar in hopes that everyone goes over and to screw over the first guy!
Both of you are also the guys who don't read the rules.
 

Sean_sl

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Whelp, picked up Fire Emblem: Awakening, Pokemon X, and.... Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon because Target had dick all else that I even remotely cared about. Sadly my Target doesn't carry SMT4 or anything else of note.
 

Utnayan

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Whelp, picked up Fire Emblem: Awakening, Pokemon X, and.... Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon because Target had dick all else that I even remotely cared about. Sadly my Target doesn't carry SMT4 or anything else of note.
You will like all of those. Although you should have gotten Resident Evil if they had it over Dark Moon. You may want to check if they still have the Shin/Fire Emblem deal going. Buy both and get a $30 credit at the Eshop... not sure when that expired though or if it did yet.
 

Szlia

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Common sense tells me you make sure the PS4's that the review sites get are top notch and test them.
Common sense also tells you that the guys at the review sites would be a bit disappointed to get a console that has already been unpacked once.

Do you want to take your chance with the failure rate or with the disappointed reviewer?

If anything, the fact that Sony did not test the consoles they sent to reviewers is an indication that they do not expect it to have a catastrophic failure rate (something they would be aware of if it was indeed catastrophic).
 

Utnayan

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/\ Sony is a large corporation and large defects have happened before and they knew about it when it shipped. I remember having one of their Rear Projection TV's that would shine a green hue after a few hours because the PCB board was overheating. They knew about it. Sent tech's out to fix it. It effected damn near everyone of them, and they hoped it wouldn't surface after careful leverage and meetings to see what would be more cost effective.

It isn't going to be about if they know about it or not, it will be if they know about it but it will be more cost effective to fix.

Why do I get the feeling Abe is just now, pressing on top of the PS4 and it is lighting up sporadically.
 

Sean_sl

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You will like all of those. Although you should have gotten Resident Evil if they had it over Dark Moon. You may want to check if they still have the Shin/Fire Emblem deal going. Buy both and get a $30 credit at the Eshop... not sure when that expired though or if it did yet.
They didn't have RE (and if you mean Revelations I have that on the X360). They had Batman, but I already have that on Vita. They had Super Mario 3D Land or whatever and Mario Kart, but meh. Rest was basically a bunch of shovelware.
 

Utnayan

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no shit let me know before I go freeze my ass off standing in line at the Best Buy in Wheaton dodging raiders and Deathclaws.
ABE!

I wonder if he is wrapping it in a towel.

Or doing a software update that hung at 20% and is staring at the TV in disbelief.