SCEA Prez offers $1200 for proof of unsold PS3s

Justin Meisse · Feb 2007

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"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it. I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that there's not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes."

Hell yeah! Looks like I'm about to be $18,000 richer (every store in my area has at least 3 of 'em)

edit: OK, I read it again and it sounds like he's offering to buy it off of you for $1200, I'm pretty sure he's not going to honor this.

PfhorRunner · Feb 2007

My best buy has had 7 on the shelf for 3 weeks.

Mongrelman · Feb 2007

He's probably being sneaky. So you buy one that's on the shelf, then when you make a claim he says "But it's not on the shelf, you bought it" or some bollocks like that hehe.

Another way of seeing this is "We made a product, and you can't buy it!".

KeyserSoze · Feb 2007

There's something really pathetic and desperate about his comment. It's like a drunkard who talks big about how strong he is and claims he can lift a full keg over his head... and then when he finally tries it, he fails miserably and just brushes it off by saying, "I can rip a phonebook in half! Does anyone here have a phonebook? I bet you $1200 I can rip a phonebook in half."

Jarrod1937 · Feb 2007

perhaps we should point him back toward next-gen wars.

Penzer · Feb 2007

Penny Arcade did a comic about it today,

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

AstroZombie · Feb 2007

I also assume that "offer" was directed at the interviewer and, as Keyser pointed out, was meant to be more boisterous than a serious offer. Kinda like on the playgrounds as kids when you would bet someone "a million bucks" over some nonsense that you were sure you were right and they were wrong about.

Jesse Moody · Feb 2007

Man this guy is a tool

Joao Sapiro · Feb 2007

what the fuck ?!? i dont understand why they keep diging a deeper grave.

Uly · Feb 2007

Those executives and their crafty doublespeak.
Rather asinine? Yes.

Hilarious? More yes.

Daz · Feb 2007

Yeah I'm pretty sure he's not going to honor it either. In fact, I don't think it's valid to use the word honor in the same sentence as 'Jack Tretton'

skankerzero · Feb 2007

The only thing I can say that might be in his favor is when did they do this interview? I'd assume it was at least a month or so ago in order to get it ready for print.

bounchfx · Feb 2007

Even when they did there were some on the shelves, as the interviewers tole him. It was Early Jan.

Jesse Moody · Feb 2007

I found 8 sitting at Target today. Man I'm gonna quit my job. Oh wait I don't have a job. Damn my life sucks... Pay up sony!

Ryno · Feb 2007

Let's all take pictures of the local unsold units, post them here, then send him the link.

Joao Sapiro · Feb 2007

like if he even reads mail,...he has secretarys that filter it out. hes a corporate fuck. when i read all stuff sony bullshitted lately, it makes me mad !

Luxury · Feb 2007

I like how he states that 9 out of 18 stores that are sold out is outstanding. That's 50% bozo. Hardly outstanding.

skankerzero · Feb 2007

there was about 20 at the local Fry's.

SCEA Prez offers $1200 for proof of unsold PS3s

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