<p>Sad to say mine is. I have no influence over this young man. There are four of them in a tent and there are about 8 tents.There are 15 tents outside of our local Best Buy and one in front of our Target. He says they are taking turns minding the tent and their names are on a list. He is at present sitting in the rain . And the cost of this thing is $500! His summer earnings could be better spent. He does play to sell it but I fear this will not work out. Oh woa is me… </p>
<p>Who in their right mind would pay $600-$1000 for a game system? Vent away…</p>
<p>Speaking of tenting, check out how much Duke basketball tickets are going for. At least your son will get more than one use out of his purchase. :eek:</p>
<p>My 15 y/o wanted to do this a couple of weeks ago. He wanted to get to a ToyRUs and camp out from 9pm until the store opened to PRE-ORDER a game system. I told him, “NO”! He managed to find an alternative and should be getting the game system in a few days from a tiny obscure store (that I did not trust for a sometime, but now I do). He asked me to pick up a couple of pre-ordered games for this today. </p>
<p>BTW, while I was at the store, one of the salespeople told me that Playstation 3 will be so hard to get that there will be a market where people can sell it for insane prices! Unfortunately, or fortunately this is not the system that my son is interested in (yet anyway).</p>
<p>My sons don’t own these systems and have become avid on classical music which believe me I didn’t really have much to do with and is hard to explain. They do like junk TV and sci fi sometimes. I actually was in Best Buy shopping for something else several Decembers ago and someone returned a new Playstation2 the year they were scarce and a boy working there put it in my cart thinking he was doing me a huge favor. I started to put it back but he said I was “crazy” and my “kids will love me forever” if I bought it.
Two people in the refrigerator section where I was shopping offered me twice its value. Someone else followed me to my car with cash.
I put it under the tree. My sons said they didn’t want it when they opened it, and the younger said: “what was Santa thinking?” (!) (He is like raising a Pilgrim Puritan, I swear.) I put an ad in the paper and sold it for twice its retail price to the first caller. My ad said: “we are unworthy. sons don’t want the Playstation2, will take calls for one hour on Sunday and best offer gets it.” </p>
<p>I don’t get it. My sons love some “junk food for the brain” activities but we have been totally spared the video game obsession and lost hours there.</p>
<p>BHG, if your son doesn’t get one, I was told today that after the first shipment comes out, the next production will be much larger. </p>
<p>I know my son wants one even though he doesn’t play games much–something about the blue ray (?) DVD and a player alone would cost at least half as much–it also has wi fi (?). You can tell I’m really into this stuff.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks. We are way behind the times here — don’t even have the new Xbox. How come that one hasn’t come down in price yet? It’s still almost $500 isn’t it? Or $489 with some games bundled. Too rich for our blood cuz I still think of it as a “toy” rather than a home entertainment system. Of course, if H was into it, we would be sitting in a tent right now.</p>