Alabama Wal-Mart breaks 40GB street date

  • Posted October 30th, 2007 at 15:52 EDT by
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According to PS3fanboy, a Wal-Mart outlet in Birmingham, Alabama has broken the street date on the 40GB PlayStatyion 3 consoles.
 

 

Apparently the store stocked the shelves with their early shipment of PS3's and began displaying them for purchase on October 30th, 3 days before the official release date.

No word from Sony yet, but as tradition goes, we may see more stores follow suit. Stay tuned for more information.

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  1. mcain44

    • 4:02pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 1

    things are looking up for Sony!

  2. joeyjoejoeshababadoo

    • 4:07pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 2

    That  just means more consoles sold!

  3. Turbo Teddy | Turbo_Teddy

    • 4:08pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 3

    Thats strange.. In Europe its been able to buy the 40 GB edition for a long time. One thing that EU could before US ;-)

  4. Mecha_Daddy | mecha_daddy

    • 4:10pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 4

    Oopsie!   That's cool that they're out.

  5. fkPS3

    • 6:22pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 5

    There's no mention if  they sold out of them?

  6. Clarky_psu | clarky-132

    • 6:51pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 6

    Hehe, who cares? Honestly, why would you even bother to write this up PSU?

  7. gingo | gingo

    • 7:01pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 7

    psn id: gingo.... oh no 3 days early what a disaster *sarcasm* at least it was only 3 days retailers have been known to break street dates much longer than that

  8. JMelillo57 | jmelillo57

    • 7:20pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 8

    Hopefully they are off the shelves by tomorrow. Now that would be some great news.

  9. scr8pt

    • 7:33pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 9

    I live in Kentucky, and they also were on the shelves here with the release of Spiderman 3.

  10. iToke

    • 7:45pm GMT - October 30th, 2007
    • 10

    ha....Alabama....crazy sons o bltches.......I find it funny this happened in Alabama tho...wait, nevermind....it's Alabama.....

  11. XSpike_SpiegelC | XSpike_SpiegelC

    • 12:00am GMT - October 31st, 2007
    • 11

    not like it was the FIRST PS3 coming out...THEN that would be exciting

  12. KJD007

    • 12:33am GMT - October 31st, 2007
    • 12

    ((laughing))  Trust me I live in South Alabama and this doesn't surprise me at all it happened here.  We tend to make our own rules down south.  States Rights!  PS3, it's in the box!!!

  13. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 1:37am GMT - October 31st, 2007
    • 13

    Oh you will see this everywhere but you have to look hard. Frye's does this sort of thing as well. ;)

  14. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 2:40am GMT - October 31st, 2007
    • 14

    lol, I have family there. I wonder if they picked it up.

  15. zbamf

    • 8:06pm GMT - October 31st, 2007
    • 15

    I think it shows that theres going to be a mad rush to get one of these.

  16. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 12:47am GMT - November 1st, 2007
    • 16

    Not one person seemed interested in the 40GB version after I said it had no BC.  I still think it was a bad move to lose BC and keep WiFi.

    I think they could have at least made two 40GBs, one with BC and one with WiFi, and let the consumer choose.

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