Max Barry Comments on PS3 Launch Shootings

Submitted by Nick on November 22, 2006 – 2:13 am6 Comments

I was wondering how long it would take before Max Barry, author of the novel Jennifer Government (pictured above), would comment on the shootings at the Playstation 3 launch in the US.

Early in the novel, unscrupulous marketing executives for Nike devise an insane marketing plan to launch their new product. It involves artifically limiting stock to fuel demand and then orchestrating a shooting to establish street cred and turn the hype machine into overdrive. Hmmm…

Here’s what Max had to say on his blog:

“Not that I

James

Any statements about a deliberate shortage are completely false. If Sony could have a million available, they would have that many available and they’d still sell out.

There’s no point to having only 80,000 available in Japan, or whatever the number is.

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I am not angry about the shortage, things happen, i am actually more annoyed at the people who bought it to turn a fast buck.
in NYC theres a series of shabby looking people who stand on lines for tickets that scalpers sell, those were the same type of people outside of the Best buy near my job. They were a rowdy crew…
also annoying where the ebayers with ridiculously high min.
(I happen to notice and with a set price dont really get bids ahahahaha)
But that takes from me (a gamer) for these people to gouge cash away from my bank account.
I hope sony screws everybody by actually shipping more and more products!

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Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. I haven’t been up to much these days. I just don’t have much to say right now. I can’t be bothered with anything , but whatever.

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I just don’t have much to say these days, but so it goes. Today was a total loss. I guess it doesn’t bother me.

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