Pre-Order Info/Help - PS4/XO
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Sony seems to have put a hard limit on the number of PS4's available in the UK at least. If you don't get your pre-order before Monday 5th you won't be able to get a launch day console.
Sounds like they are very supply constrained already for the launch window.
Sounds like they are very supply constrained already for the launch window.
Johnny Awesome
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Supply is going to be critical this time. It might boil down to who can get the most units out in the first 6 months.
The only thing I have seen regarding PS4 price was from Patcher at E3 where he said during an interview that PS4 was selling at modest profit. Are there more recent reports about the price of PS4 that suggest its selling at a loss or breakeven?
As much as I love gaming and wouldn't mind picking up and xb1 or a PS4 at launch, I can't get myself to preorder. I've preordered like two to three games and everytime I got a call saying the games are ready for pickup, I went "pfft" and carried on with my day and forgot to go pick them up. I've never been motivated to preorder a console.
Maybe I am crazy but it seems that on a subconscious level, reservation ruins part of the excitement for me. Its like as a child, your parents putting your christmas gifts under the tree on the 20th, packaged in transparent wrapping paper.
LOL.
Maybe I am crazy but it seems that on a subconscious level, reservation ruins part of the excitement for me. Its like as a child, your parents putting your christmas gifts under the tree on the 20th, packaged in transparent wrapping paper.
LOL.
The store in my city, what they have done with the signs - PS4 is eye level so you really notice it. Xbox is well quite a bit higher up, so you really don't notice it unless you think I wonder what that other piece of paper says.
So when you open the front door you only have PS4 in your vision, a bit clever I thought.
We have twins on the way, so it is an early baby present so I can stay sane during the early months. But actually is my first true pre-order, I have always just waited. I did get the original Xbox during launch week, it was a bit of a challenge to find for sure.
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I'm not so sure. There was that IGN UK report that covered an Amazon UK press released stating that, at during E3 week, Amazon were taking 2,500 nextgen console preorders per minute.
I think it's likely that demand will outstrip supply for both consoles during launch, but I also think that they'll be more consoles than ever this time around because both company's products are grounded in well understood technology and neither are pushing the boundaries in terms of custom or new technology or clock speeds.
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That's way too extreme...
I have some friends with little children and yes, it completely changed their lifestyle.. but it's not like they never played a game ever again.
And no, none of them got insta-dumped by their wives for playing a videogame once in a while.
Heck, there are cases where people actually play more because they have to be home at night/weekends more often and you don't need (shouldn't, actually?) to be all over the child the whole time during their first 5 years.
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Seriously, it's nothing you can judge. Gaming has nothing to do with kids, but everything to do with the relationship. Most of my WOW Semi Hardcore playing was done after i had kids. It's easy enough if you can work it out with your GF. And most kids sleep well at night, leaving plenty of time to play.
When our first child arrived I thought long and hard about how to balance work, family, gaming, and sleep. My work is long hours but can be pretty random when I am called upon. Sometimes it's a 9-5 other times I can be analysing logs at 5am.
I decided that sleep was the none required element! So in order to fit in gaming and anime consumption I do all that from 11pm to 2am. Then sleep from 3am to 7am. It took some conditioning but I got there!!
I decided that sleep was the none required element! So in order to fit in gaming and anime consumption I do all that from 11pm to 2am. Then sleep from 3am to 7am. It took some conditioning but I got there!!
Gradthrawn
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XBO Play and Charge Kit - $24.99 USD
XBO Controller and Play and Charge Kit - $74.99 USD
XBO Wired Headset - $24.99 USD
Are all now available for pre-order at Amazon US.
XBO Controller and Play and Charge Kit - $74.99 USD
XBO Wired Headset - $24.99 USD
Are all now available for pre-order at Amazon US.
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What do you need a play and charge kit for?
EDIT: I had no idea that the controllers didn't include a rechargeable battery, this was not meant to turn the pre-order thread into a battery discussion. But lets keep the info here..
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Silent_Buddha
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If you don't want to use your own batteries (rechargeable or otherwise).
I wonder how many mAH the Play and Charge kit battery is. I'm thinking of just using Eneloops when I get a controller for the PC.
Regards,
SB
The controllers doesn't come with a rechargeable battery? Now that is a surprise, welcome to 2013 we are still working on putting rechargeable batteries in our controllers.
So my Starwars edition was pimped out afterall..
There are pro's and con's about it.
Silent_Buddha
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If it was truly money milking they wouldn't provide an option out of the box to use any AA battery you want. They would instead only allow specially designed batteries (like notebooks and many cameras, for example).
And for me, internal non-replaceable batteries is a serious drawback. I know it's seen as a value add to some (which is perfectly fine), but for me and many other like me it isn't. I'll never buy something with a non-replaceable battery if I have a choice of something with a replaceable battery.
It doesn't matter to me that many on these forums haven't had a problem with them because I know just as many people in RL who have replaced their PS3 controllers as the battery life became too low for them. For some of them, they can not hook up a USB to charge while playing (the wife won't let them, pets get in the way, toddlers trip over them, etc.). For others, they complain about how if they want a wired controller they would get a wired controller, and thus refuse to play it while connected (yes, weird, I know but I do know those types of people). Then again for most of them, 50-60 USD for a new controller is pocket change as they make that much in 1 or 2 hours of work at most.
I can easily afford to do that as well, but I have this ingrained money saving thing that makes it difficult to waste money like that. Used to drive some of my past g/f's absolutely bonkers.
So for me, I'd rather just save money by being able to just replace the battery at any moment. And the convenience of never having to be corded while playing is very nice.Regards,
SB
Kinect has mics .
Anyway , last gen I had a energizer charger station. I'd put both my controlers on it along withmy head set
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Ener...579&sr=8-10&keywords=xbox+360+charger+station
The great thing is I would be able to just pop in double a batteries if I needed to. No cords at all and there is a good 20 feet or so between where I set and where I play my games. I wouldn't want a cable that long
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