Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle kills Amazon
- Posted June 6th, 2008 at 18:12 EDT by
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Earlier this morning, Amazon.com provided the public with an opportunity to pre-order the 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle that is set to go on sale June 12 of next week. Unfortunately, Amazon was not prepared for the onslaught of hits that would accumulate once that digital gate had been opened.
Due to this unforeseen (how?) traffic increase, Amazon.com was literally flooded and their services were rendered unavailable. It took a mere seven minutes for rabid Metal Gear fans to pre-order the full amount of 80GB systems that Amazon had to offer.
If you happened to miss out on this pre-order bonanza, you'll still have a chance to grab one of these bundles when the game hits retail shelves next week. You'll have the option to buy the MGS4 bundle at your local GameStop, though sadly GameStop is going to require that you buy the L.E. headset for MGS4 as well, bringing your total bundle price to a rather steep $560. To some this will be a small price to pay for Metal Gear Solid lore, while for others it'll be impossible to justify their purchase.
As more news pops up surrounding MGS4, we'll be sure to keep you informed.
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GordLacey
- 6:25pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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Do you really believe it was everyone trying to order the MGS bundle from Amazon? This is a website that handles tons of traffic a day; I don't think every PS3 owner in the world would be able to take down their servers. It's likely some other issue that rendered the site unavailable, and just happened to occur the same day as MGS went up. Hey, as much as I'd like to think it was the MSG sale, I just don't see it happening.
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REZBLUE
- 6:41pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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That doesnt matter an overflow of people trying to get into a certain page at the same time can crash any server. Amazon covers most of the world. 100,000 + people trying to access a web page at the exact same time would crash any server. Yeah Im sure it was just a coincidense on the same day at the same time MGS pre orders went up lmao
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kidkotic2001 |
hotshot2001- 6:59pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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I will wait and buy mine at bestbuy or circuit city. I am going to miss work that day lol
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FantasyStar |
Tirin- 7:18pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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Gamestop forcing customers to buy the LE Headset as well? Typical. It's stuff like this that makes me glad I'm shopping at Target and Play-n-Trade for my gaming needs.
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BlueRevolvuR |
BlueRevolvuR- 7:28pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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Well like mentioned before Amazon gets a lot of traffic everyday. But with MGS4 the traffic probably grew to the extent that servers crash. At least Amazon is up and running. KANT WAIT FOR JUNE 12!!
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GOD_OF_CHAOS_KRATOS |
BlueRevolvuR- 7:31pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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FantasyStar, are you from or currently living in Rhode Island?
Because i do not know if there are other play n trades since i know the owners(brothers) just opened up the small store in north providence
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FantasyStar |
Tirin- 7:41pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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Kratos, I actually live on the West coast in California. Play-N-Trade is mostly focused in the Central Region, but they're expanding. They're not any better than Gamestop sometimes when it comes to pricing, but I'd pay an extra $2 just so the sales person doesn't keep hassling me about pre-orders. Also they import games and accessories as well, they had the DS3 since the launch in Japan.
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GOD_OF_CHAOS_KRATOS |
Admodistrator- 7:43pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
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Supra2JZGTE
- 7:44pm BST - June 6th, 2008
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thats why I couldn't get onto there site eariler!!! I was trying to browse for some BD's thanks to our Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 :)
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smallvillefreak
- 12:26am BST - June 7th, 2008
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Well, technically they're not saying that you have to buy the headset in order to buy the metal gear solid 4 playstation 3 bundle. The way they have it is as a bundle. It's kind of like when they include second controllers and simply add the controller value to the price. they're not saying you have to buy a second controller to buy the system, it's just that that controller (or in this case headset) is included in the bundle and thus the price is more. I know it's getting highly technical to make a buck, but there's still people who will do it.
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ohshutyourmouth |
ohshutyourmouth- 8:31am BST - June 7th, 2008
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gamestop making you purchase the headset along with this... i swear to god they are so biased and secretly working with microsoft
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1solidsnake |
solid1snake67- 10:14am BST - June 7th, 2008
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otacon: "what are we doing tonight snake"?
Snake: the same thing we do everynight otacon! "try to take over the world!!!!!!!!!!!
oh this week will be an insane week. i think i will love the customizable gunes. so awesome. lol i had to wear a suit that was uncomfotable for my bro's wedding. i went up to him and said you o me a ride to gamestop. he laughed and said ok. i think i lost 10 lbs from that suit it was hot in missouri yesterday
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PS3sR2DEAR
- 5:58am BST - June 8th, 2008
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Is the correct Term.... Sheep or Troll.....Amazon+PS3 sales baaaaah
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Xdeth |
Xdeth- 3:16pm BST - June 8th, 2008
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@24 I couldnt agree with you more. My local gamestop has at least 4 360 biased employees that have something smart a** to say whenver I get something for my PS3. My only alternative is Wallmart in my area, and they often don't carry the special edition game packages.
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