As you are surely aware, Sony’s PS3 will be launching tomorrow. And whether stores run midnight sales or not, the lines are in full swing everywhere. The trouble is, when you get a lot more people waiting for something that supply cannot possibly keep up with, you are going to have a lot of angry people. Already we are seeing reports of brawls and BB gun shootings, and its only about 1 PM eastern. Unless we are lucky, I think we may see some riots and robberies. It’s an ugly state of affairs. One thing I am bracing for is the upcoming negative, and often unfounded association of violent people and video games. A lot of people will think this behaviour is attributed to people wanting the video game system, but its not the video game system that people want or makes them do crazy things. It’s the greed for the money they can get for reselling it. And greed making people do bad things is nothing new.


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