Gamerscore Blog

hahahaha
And another great day for Xbox.
I love it.

Even if it seemingly kills a website for a few moments. :P

Just imagine how many 360's MS would sell if the price actually was $100 in retail

PF2K,

I love your thinking!!! Somebody hire this guy!!! No seriously, if it dropped to $100 in retail, I think the world would stop rotating. I know I'd buy 4 of 'em!! What a thought, a 360 for $100 retail??? Wow, I'm going to have to think about that for a while....

29 seconds seems long, and what's up with the

""We saw dramatically more traffic than what we anticipated," Amazon spokesman Craig Berman said Friday."

It was posted on 4 major U.S. Gaming sites and outpaced the other items combined and multiplied....


I know Microsoft's goal is the $100 dollar Core, but can we please get the BLACK, built in HD-DVD, HDMI "CORE" first.  Stryker got his 360 (pri), Velocity girl has her core, but I am beatbuilder( original XBOX owner) and I'm STILL WAITING for mine...

People are VERY mad about Amazon and the fact that it was slow to the point of unusable during the Xbox for $100 time-frame.

I was reading on Amazon's site.  I tried to jump on around 11:30 pst and see if there were any 360s left (not that I thought I'd be one of of the lucky 1000 to get it), and I just read hate for pages and pages.

Its quite amazing just how many people do think the Internet should have 100% uptime and be 100% responsive.  Granted large corporations like Amazon usually are close to that but I recently had to remind someone that "even the mighty xbox.com has to go down for maintainence sometimes".

At the end of the day PEOPLE arent 100% reliable so why should computers be?  Being angry at a company because their website was running slow one day is childish and stupid.    How many times do you go to the shops at this time of year and the SHOPS are too busy and slow to get to the checkout?  Yet people put up with that but expect so much more from the Internet when it has to deal with a LOT more simultanious customers.

It is just unreasonable to expect a company that has an certain average traffic flow to spend enough money to handle an enormous unpredictable amount of traffic. Though people are saying they are angry about the fact that Amazon wasn't "prepared" for the traffic, they really are just upset that they were not one of the 1000 people to get a 360 for 100 bucks. To put it in real perspective, if the site was able to handle the traffic, the system would have sold out in 27 seconds instead of 29, and only 1000 would have got them.

Game.co.uk regularly do this in the UK, I think they offered a core for £100 in the last 24 hour sale they ran, they ran out in around 10 seconds....

They seem to do it as a way to stress test the servers, generate a lot of account sign ups (you don't stand a chance of getting it unless you are signed into an account with stored credit card details)

fuck you all you are retartded!!!!!!!!