I don't ever see a time where id queue for hours even days for a games console.
I have queued for a whole day for a festival ticket, mainly cos it allows me to walk out with the ticket at the end of the day and not spend an afternoon online (which I'm without regular access to at the moment) in the vain hope that I'd get a ticket and not find someone has now bought and willing to sell on ebay 5 minutes later, I've missed out on the last few Glastonbury's due to this online-ness malarky and have just gone to the local Cambridge folk festival instead (after queuing for a whole day).
I saw and read about the huge global queues for ps3 wii and others, paying homeless people to stand in line for you so you had some virtually instant profit on ebay
these people just see the $'s or £ and if i could find the key yens in their eyes.
the real gamers who do queue for that long (without a toilet break?) might have way too much time on their hands and might rack up hours a day in games that out weigh my hours at work (11+ a day on average)
well its their human right to do such a thing, but i myself would wait for the availability and perhaps price to come down
and as for Christmas shopping, these days you'd be lucky to just get a bottle/12 pack of your fave booze and a gift voucher for a dvd or two.
I long since left childhood and having no children myself (fingers crossed) and being agnostic Christmas doesn't have the same ring to me as others and i just see it for what it is outside of religion, a mass marketing campaign for capitalism.
Santa has already left alot of Jack Daniels (consumer whore that i am) in my Christmas stocking this year, next gen consoles (hell a new pc) can wait till the new fiscal new year.
I have queued for a whole day for a festival ticket, mainly cos it allows me to walk out with the ticket at the end of the day and not spend an afternoon online (which I'm without regular access to at the moment) in the vain hope that I'd get a ticket and not find someone has now bought and willing to sell on ebay 5 minutes later, I've missed out on the last few Glastonbury's due to this online-ness malarky and have just gone to the local Cambridge folk festival instead (after queuing for a whole day).
I saw and read about the huge global queues for ps3 wii and others, paying homeless people to stand in line for you so you had some virtually instant profit on ebay
these people just see the $'s or £ and if i could find the key yens in their eyes.
the real gamers who do queue for that long (without a toilet break?) might have way too much time on their hands and might rack up hours a day in games that out weigh my hours at work (11+ a day on average)
well its their human right to do such a thing, but i myself would wait for the availability and perhaps price to come down
and as for Christmas shopping, these days you'd be lucky to just get a bottle/12 pack of your fave booze and a gift voucher for a dvd or two.
I long since left childhood and having no children myself (fingers crossed) and being agnostic Christmas doesn't have the same ring to me as others and i just see it for what it is outside of religion, a mass marketing campaign for capitalism.
Santa has already left alot of Jack Daniels (consumer whore that i am) in my Christmas stocking this year, next gen consoles (hell a new pc) can wait till the new fiscal new year.