When the Xbox 360 was in initial short supply, with Redmond shipping stingy amounts to retailers, many of those retailers made a killing by selling the consoles on eBay at an inflatable price. According to a short item on Joystiq, mom and pop retailers are planning to pull the same stunt with the Sony Playstation 3 launch.
So the big retailers will screw you with bait and switch tactics and bloated bundle deals and the smaller stores will make you compete against fellow rabid early adopters for their precious few units. It’s times like these that I’m glad I’m not a rabid video gamer.
[Via Joystiq]