Sony must be pleased with the responses so far as reports come in of people camping in long lines and even fighting for places in line for their chance to buy a PS3.
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has to be pleased with the early reports of the response to the impending release of the Playstation 3. People are camping in long lines at Toys "R" Us and Best Buy in order to be the first on their block to own the high-end computer entertainment system.
In some cases, fighting has even broken out for a place in the line. In West Bend WI, a 19-year-old man was taken to an area hospital after getting hurt while waiting to buy a Sony Playstation 3 video game system to go on sale at midnight. Sheriff's officials in Palmdale, CA say deputies shut down a Super Wal-Mart in Palmdale after a crowd of shoppers camped out for a chance to buy PlayStation 3 got rowdy.
Sony officials have even tried to minimize the problems by announcing that the PS3 would be in short supply and that quantities would be very limited all over the country but that seems to only have made things worse in some areas. Sony will be shipping only 1 million units at launch with only 400,000 of those earmarked for North America.
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