Comments on: Amazon Xbox Thanksgiving promo gone in minutes!

By: Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech» Blog Archive » “12 Gizmos of Christmas”: #1, Video Game Consoles

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:17:46 +0000

[...] It’s probably not a huge surprise that Video Game Consoles ended up as #1 on the “12 Gizmos of Christmas” special. After all, we recently witnessed riots, fighting, scams, huge lines and even shootings to obtain Sony Playstation 3’s. It was a little less exciting for Nintendo Wii’s but no less important in the grand scheme of raw demand. Even a sale on Microsoft Xbox 360’s brought Amazon’s website to its knees and the Xboxes sold out in 5 minutes. [...]

By: mark

mark — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:15:30 +0000

Yep - I had 3 different browsers open (firefox/ie/opera) - and all timed out.. their front page was inaccessible too.. (tested from different computer)

-mark

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:30:44 +0000

Kesh - at first I agreed with you, but when I checked their Movers and Shakers page, Xbox core (at the time of writing) jumped to #1 today. I know a little bit about the workings of their rankings, and this implies they did sell a chunk of units…

By: kesh

kesh — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:17:58 +0000

yah…its a hoax I was there with 2 computers 2 browsers on each and still failed…..i dont think they gave them out at all.