Today was quite possibly the worst day for Amazon to experience downtime. Planned to be the day that Amazon began accepting pre-orders for the Metal Gear Solid 4 80 GB PS3 bundle, everything fell apart when Amazon experienced some serious downtime this morning -- downtime that many are attributing to the popularity of the MGS 4 bundle and subsequent flood of pre-order traffic.
While technically true, rumor has it that the downtime is actually attributable to several bots set up prior to pre-order availability with the sole purpose of pre-ordering every bundle they possibly could, presumably to resell the bundles at inflated prices on eBay. Considering the stability of Amazon's site during their Wii pre-order bonanza, it seems likely they'd be able to withstand the onslaught of MGS 4-hungry shoppers.
Reports of those that actually got their hands on a bundle seem slim, leading one to wonder whether Amazon will be honoring these automated pre-orders. So, how many Dtoiders got their hands on the precious MGS 4 pre-order booty before the great strain of our collective lust brought Amazon to their knees?
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4:45 PM on 06.06.2008
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That's pretty crazy.
This sucks, Sony is making it as hard as possible for people who want to buy a PS3 to get one. You can barely preorder them anywhere, most stores I guess are being forced to sell them first come first serve. So, since I can't go to the midnight launch, I'm fucked. The next shipment of the 80gb PS3s isn't supposed to be out until June 30th at the earliest, and at that point I'm sure MGS4 spoilers will be so rampant that the game will be ruined.
Sony, you know why you're losing the console war? Because you're only selling the piece of shit 40gb and making it hard as fuck for people to get a halfway decent system.
An update successful on all the other domains (EU/JP/etc) which stayed up.
I don't see any way bots could cause this disruption.
Statistically, Amazon looses $500 per second when down.
Hahaha, oh wow.
I fail, here's the image.
That price is what 3rd-parties are charging for the bundle, not Amazon.com's retail price.
What you're looking at is basically Amazon's version of Ebay.
The retail price that Amazon charges is $499.99.
I know, but that's what the pre-order botters are now charging, due to inflation of the price.
You'll pay an arm and a leg if you didn't pre-order it, it seems.
*Europeans cry to sleep
**Previous owners accounted that they're Europeans feel, oddly, neutral.
OMFG 5 DAYS LEFT HOLY SHIT
Good thing I'm not interested in Metal Gear Solid 4 at all.
It "is" a 'limited edition', of sorts. It's an 80Gb PS3 console (black though) So is one of the few backwards compatible versions of the PS3 (and currently only one sold retail) - but I'm sure you already knew that ;)
But what I'm alluding to, is that (knowing Sony) they wont sell this model again, for quite some time. So people are trying to get in quick. I for one know that BC is still very important to some gamers...
So glad I bought a 60Gb when they were still around :)
Alex
Steel PS3
40 gig PS3. Limited Edition MGS4 pack. Dualshock 3 controller. NO PS2 compatibility.
Price: $600
Black PS3
80 gig PS3. Normal edition MGS4 pack. Dualshock 3 controller. Near full PS2 compatibility.
Price: $500