Oh, to be IT writer Stan Beer. Writing about console gaming; living the life; shooting people in the dark alleys of Las Vegas just to watch them die. Riding the streets g’d up from the feet up in his pimped out Honda Civic hoping the fuzz don’t catch him and his posse ridin’ dirty. Must be nice.
Today, his wit and wisdom is thus: When the PS3 and Wii launch later this month (I still can’t believe it’s almost time — I feel like Cartman), they will sell out. Maybe. Only if non-gamers come to the scene in droves to try out the Wii. And the PS3 will have trouble because of low inventory numbers and an intimidating price tag and spec sheet. And everyone playing game consoles will be males between 18 and 29. We won’t know who’s “won” the console war until a year from now. Heard all of this before? Good, because so have I and everyone else. Except Stan Beer. Who wrote a column today that screams “appeasement” to the thousands of emails he’s no doubt received regarding his lackluster writing on gaming culture.
Stan Beer. The voice of a gaming generation, six weeks late.
13 days.
[Hat tip, Josh Daugherty]
He is an attention whore.He is being an idiot and he knows it. He writes this things to drive up traffic to his otherwise unknown site
non-gamers won't be an issue this holiday season. What matters is that fellow 7 year olds Timmy and Steven both have been promised Wiis for x-mas, and now their friend Johnny desperately wants one. Then he gets promised one, and so on and so forth until, guess what, sell out. It's not like there's 4 million for the USA, it's for the world. it will sell out, and fast. And buttholes like me will proceed to make a reasonable killing on ebay. If miraculously that doesn't happen, i can either keep the Wii, or return it at no loss.
There won't be a sellout on launch day, though. Guaranteed.
I certainly hope so, since there is no way I'm camping the night before, or even stand in line the morning of the launch!
ya figure about 1 million Wiis for North America (includes Canada people), and a million for the rest of the world. It will sell out, unless you go to that one obscure shop that no one knows about, and they decided to not sell the one Wii they got on ebay for a profit (like every little game shop did with their 360s, smart of them too).
The contingent of Wii buyers that are dead set on getting it on the 19th don't account for 1 million units. Don't let your own hype delude you.