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Rad Valtar posted:The PS2 was an outlier where they did not expect high amount of demand because a lot of people wanted it as a DVD player. I wonder if the commercial with all the tanks pointing at it had any measurable benefit, things were zany back then with "oh no THEY might use it for missile guidance!"
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Every website I tried pretty much remained solidly crashed out until all the pre-orders were out. I have quite literally never gotten a successful pre-order of anything reasonably popular successfully.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:13
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Invite Emails are out for the Direct from Sony preorders. You can order at 1pm EST on Friday.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:13
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Critical posted:Jumped on this, the digital version cost me $455 US. Nice backup in case I can't get one from Amazon us I bought my PS5 in Japan and have spent the last 5 years having to guess if O or X is the “go” button, because in Japan it’s O and in US it’s X, and some games default to console standard and some just go by whatever the developers choose.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:15
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Got the confirmation email from Gamestop. It's on. Somehow I think Xbox One X will be much easier next week.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:16
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Games are going up for preorder on Amazon. https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1306417767667564544?s=20 (God they really are just re-using old PS4 cases, huh?)
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Sep 17, 2020 03:22
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Did I seriously miss out on the ability to preorder this?
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Sep 17, 2020 03:23
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Yeah. I'm kind of disappointed they're not doing black cases but it is what it is.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:23
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Fix posted:Did I seriously miss out on the ability to preorder this? F5. The modern state of pre-order is releasing inventory in waves, not first come first served. Check tomorrow. Also visit your local store, their inventory might be different than online.
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https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1306403938615406592?s=20
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Sep 17, 2020 03:25
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Fix posted:Did I seriously miss out on the ability to preorder this? sure did, I bought 3 (I did not actually buy 3, I always buy electronic stuff locally)
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Sep 17, 2020 03:27
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Best Buy "attempting to sign you in". e: nvm
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Sep 17, 2020 03:30
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I assume it's the same as any other server management economic calculation: do you really want to have enough server capacity to support the busiest day (or hour or minute) of a period of months or years, when it's 100,000 times the capacity you need for the whole rest of that time? Most organizations would say no.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:32
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Rad Valtar posted:There is almost zero chance it will be as scarce at the PS2. They have 10 million units planned by the end of the year. lmbo the industry is *only* 3 times larger than it was in 2000 Rad Valtar posted:The PS2 was an outlier where they did not expect high amount of demand because a lot of people wanted it as a DVD player. Well, circumstances now are not exactly normal either. How about we pick this up again when we both own PS5s!
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Sep 17, 2020 03:32
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Zaphod42 posted:Soul of the mind, key to life's ether.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I assume it's the same as any other server management economic calculation: do you really want to have enough server capacity to support the busiest day (or hour or minute) of a period of months or years, when it's 100,000 times the capacity you need for the whole rest of that time? Most organizations would say no. That's really smart and all, but I was under the impression that nowadays these things can be scaled up automatically based on need. I doubt a company like Best Buy needs to have its own datacenter with 5 Pentium IIIs running Windows XP on them. I'm afraid that's what they're doing though...
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Sep 17, 2020 03:36
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Best Buy eventually let me into Checkout. I processed order, it had me go through verified by visa stuff, and then it dumped me back out to the cart. Both editions are sold out now. Rough stuff. I wish companies would open preorders with more lead time. If they started taking them six months ahead of release, we wouldn't have such a crazy rush. PS4 preorders opened during E3 and they lasted a little while before selling out, and I don't recall websites crashing or anything like that. This is just crazy. The pandemic isn't helping. People are starved for home entertainment.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:37
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I just ordered the weird german one lmao Anything to look out for or am I just getting a normal PS5? Also I assume it's like Amazon US where they wont charge me til it ships, right? This is weird but whatever lol
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Sep 17, 2020 03:38
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I finally got my preorder for Miles Morales, off Amazon after spending 2 hours clicking a button on Best Buy's website to get beat to the punch :P
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Sep 17, 2020 03:39
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Ps5 is up on Amazon Mexico and Australia. US will probably show up soon.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:42
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il serpente cosmico posted:Best Buy eventually let me into Checkout. I processed order, it had me go through verified by visa stuff, and then it dumped me back out to the cart. Both editions are sold out now. Rough stuff. Imagine how many consoles would get preordered with a 6 month run up. They’d be working to fill the backlog for almost as long as the preorder window.
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Sep 17, 2020 03:44
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Oh, it hasn't even gone up on Amazon yet?
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Sep 17, 2020 03:44
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KingSlime posted:I just ordered the weird german one lmao Probably need a plug adapter, i would assume it's going to confirm location during setup so there shouldn't be anything drastic.
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Critical posted:Probably need a plug adapter, i would assume it's going to confirm location during setup so there shouldn't be anything drastic. ugh forgot about the power adapter, I'm assuming/hoping Sony will sell em separately E: wait i'm a dummy I can just get a universal adapter eh? You can tell I don't go abroad much KingSlime fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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screamin and creamin posted:That's really smart and all, but I was under the impression that nowadays these things can be scaled up automatically based on need. I doubt a company like Best Buy needs to have its own datacenter with 5 Pentium IIIs running Windows XP on them. I'm afraid that's what they're doing though... This is partly why online retailers are moving their infrastructure to public cloud services. You don't want a bunch of servers sitting around idle waiting for traffic, but if you can't handle traffic spikes like this you're dropping money on the floor. These companies are big ships to steer so they probably still have things running in their own datacenters, but Target and Best Buy announced partnerships with Google Cloud a few years ago, Walmart is partnered with Microsoft and using Azure, Amazon runs on *checks clipboard* AWS. But running stuff on a public cloud doesn't automatically get you nice things like autoscaling, it just makes it theoretically possible. Still takes a lot of engineering effort to get that to work. A company like Best Buy at best probably has engineers on call who get alerted on high traffic or low capacity and they then push buttons to expand capacity.
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acksplode posted:This is partly why online retailers are moving their infrastructure to public cloud services. You don't want a bunch of servers sitting around idle waiting for traffic, but if you can't handle traffic spikes like this you're dropping money on the floor. These companies are big ships to steer so they probably still have things running in their own datacenters, but Target and Best Buy announced partnerships with Google Cloud a few years ago, Walmart is partnered with Microsoft and using Azure, Amazon runs on *checks clipboard* AWS. But running stuff on a public cloud doesn't automatically get you nice things like autoscaling, it just makes it theoretically possible. Still takes a lot of engineering effort to get that to work. A company like Best Buy at best probably has engineers on call who get alerted on high traffic or low capacity and they then push buttons to expand capacity. This. I work for a top 5 US online retailer. It's all cloud these days.
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KingSlime posted:ugh forgot about the power adapter, I'm assuming/hoping Sony will sell em separately tbh I'm just using it as an extreme backup. I'm still searching for another option and the german order will be cancelled as soon as I find one
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Sep 17, 2020 03:48
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oh totally, same here. I'm gonna try snagging one from the US website but if not I can get my weird German ps5 in early Dec
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:lmbo the industry is *only* 3 times larger than it was in 2000 That will be launch day for me because I have one preordered.
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In non-PS5 news I just finished Gravity Rush 2 and what the hell was that story? Its like a 10 yr old wrote it. It's essentially a much of "And then this happened...'
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Sep 17, 2020 04:01
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Like 90% of that game didn't need to happen when all anyone who played the first game wanted to know was the last 10% of it, and when they finally got to that last 10% they blew so much money they had to kill a bunch of cool setpieces by Xenogearsing them. I was sick to death of "villain offers protagonist an out to live in a fantasy world" as a trope, that dumb bit where everyone was singing that song Kat made up and performed once in some dive bar was stupid, and I would have rather had the final segment with her going into the ocean to do the black hole thing be playable instead of anything in Hekseville which was a poor rehashing of the same angle they did in the first game where Kat returns to find the place is different.
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Zaphod42 posted:Soul of the mind, key to life's ether. So that the world might be mended. Edit. Oops! I always remembered it as souls. Guess I need to replay it in November. MrMidnight fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 04:06
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im so psyched, ive never gotten to play demons souls
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Thundercracker posted:In non-PS5 news I just finished Gravity Rush 2 and what the hell was that story? Its like a 10 yr old wrote it. It's essentially a much of "And then this happened...' i think it was modeled after episodic arcs like a comic book, but yes, it's very weird that all the cliffhangers and questions for the entire series got wrapped up in the final 5% of the plot after 95% of unrelated puttering around
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Sep 17, 2020 04:08
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Miles Morales is only $50. That doesn't bode well. And it's only on BB.
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Waltzing Along posted:Miles Morales is only $50. That doesn't bode well. And it's only on BB. They said right from the start that it’s a shorter game a la Uncharted Lost Legacy.
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no clue what Amazon's plans are, but if its anything like the Switch was, the preorders will go up in 45 minutes
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Sep 17, 2020 04:14
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E this was useless and mostly wrong
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You vill zee, ve haff ways to make you enjoy ze german Spielstation, yankee manchildren!
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