Fans Camp Out At GameStop To Get An Xbox Series X On Black Friday

At a loss for words really. I wonder what would happen if someone just walked to the front of the queue 1 minute before the store opened. I'd be interested in seeing that you tube video.
And possibly a stupid question but those waiting for Switch and Animal Crossing, hasn't it been out for about 9 months? Seems a bit of poor planning on their part?

So they didn't do what Gamestop Ireland did. They've been taking preorders for Xbox Series Mess and PS5 since last year, which got automatically converted over in the order they were placed when official ones went live.

8 consoles (2 PS5 and 6 Xbox) is all the store had in stock. 8.

Everyone I talked to there was saying the same thing: this was their only real chance to get a console because all the bots are sucking them up.

Everyone social distanced. Everyone wore masks. Everyone was responsible.

I walked away empty-handed.

Moral of the story: it’s time to stop making online-only the only way to get these machines.

There are 3500 PS5s being held hostage by scalpers thanks to bots.

I have no idea why people do this just to get a chance at a new console. But to each their own, I guess.

@GamingFan4Lyf I had a similar experience. I went to two different towns early in the morning to check. One had 2 ps5s and 10 xsx, and the other had 2 ps5s and 4 xsx. Walked away empty handed but everyone handled it properly while there.

One guy offered to let me join him at the front of the line if I paid him 60 bucks but I didn’t wanna be a dick to the others who waited longer than me.

I’ll get the system when I can. But man they need to send more to brick and mortar stores and stop the online stuff.

Hope they got one in USA.
The UK this year so far today Black Friday is sort of rubbish, was looking at top end TVs and the prices not less that the last three weeks.
Actually some deals overall are worse financially.
As for next generation consoles, nothing at all.
A bit boring in the UK and no excitement really.
Then again we are in pandemic I guess.

Yes, because this sounds totally safe during a pandemic. Or even without one, really. I have to hand a fair-play point to Sony for this one. Announcing no retail availability at all was smart. MS really should have followed that lead on this.

@Menchi That would make too much sense for American retail.

Have you ever heard the infamous story from about 15 years ago where Black Friday in Walmart a woman was knocked down and, literally, trampled nearly to death to get a DVD player for $99? After she was largely recovered in the hospital, Walmart decided to be the good, socially responsible corporation we all know American corporations can be, and offered her the opportunity to buy the DVD player at the Black Friday price of $99 still to put it right.

That's the famous case, but generally, annually, there's more than a few life-threatening injuries around the country in Black Friday stampedes.

And you want....preorders? Where people just get product in the order of first come, first served? WTF kind of troll are you?

@StonyKL "I wonder what would happen if someone just walked to the front of the queue 1 minute before the store opened. I'd be interested in seeing that you tube video."

It would be the prequel to The Last of Us nobody asked for. Like the Xbox series Spinoff: The First of Us: Part X.

Ain't no one seen a torture porn simulator on that scale before!

I’ve given up in any motion of getting a next gen console now, probably won’t be till March now maybe? You against hundreds of thousands of others and thousands of bots...

@NEStalgia

There actually is a website dedicated to tallying up all the Black Friday deaths. Seriously. Not sure if they're still keeping count but the last count was 12 deaths and 117 injuries.

Anyways... I tried to get an Xbox Series X online a few days ago. Got there as soon as the sale started. Before I could even blink, it was sold out. Sad onion.

@Onion LOL, whoever says consumerism isn't a life or death matter clearly has never seen American retail.

If we count pandemic related spread from Black Friday shopping this year, this could be the first year holiday shopping has a death toll surpassing the Cold War!

Did anyone read that stupid response from the people who have all those PS5s? It’s so stupid.

Haha I want one but not worth sleeping outside