Gamestop is the same company that tried to claim they were an “essential business” during COVID because they sold iPads second-hand, so yeah, they’re a shitty business.

“I really think demanding a refund at this point is a bit of a kneejerk reaction.”

Or Spawn Wave tear it down himself after he got his, since that’s kind of his thing?

Retailers (as well as Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo) should care though, and here’s why

I didn’t even bother with Gamestop’s website. They’ve bungled so many of these in the past between the NES/SNES classics where you knew it would be a mess.

If I remember right, I think Amazon opened preorders for PS4 (I didn’t buy XB1 at launch) either in the middle of or right after Sony’s E3 presentation that year, so I didn’t have trouble getting one then. 

I don’t love it either, but its better than the alternative which was the shitshow at 11am and I’d rather see Sony and Microsoft make an attempt to reward their most loyal customers.

I’m sure the Bethesda announcement yesterday had a lot to do with the demand.

This is the million dollar question, isn’t it? If I were Best Buy or Target or Walmart, I wouldn’t care who bought the allotment of consoles I got. All I would care about is when I can get more to sell.

Because they don’t care. Why would they as long as someone is buying them?

“I don’t see what the big deal is” - Sean Avery

Not really, since we want a new Chrono Trigger game.

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If Deadspin is going to celebrate a massive dong as much as they do, why can’t the Mets?

Solid list. If third party publishing rights weren’t a factor, I’d move heaven and earth to get Turtles in Time on there. I’d probably swap out one of the Natsume games for Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Mortal Kombat II is a must, and this console feels incomplete without an NBA Jam title and without NHL 94

Please like my sport

There was bad blood throughout this game. The Devils got hosed in the first period when Travis Zajac was basically boarded, broke his nose, and was left lying in a pool of his own blood, only to not only get no call, but have to kill a 5-on-3 because the Devils bench more or less called bullshit on Vancouver getting…

That only means his wife left him.

Baseball was never better or more interesting than it was at the height of the steroid era.