"There Is No Way [the PS3] Launch Will Go Well"

More doomsaymongering for the reigning heavyweight champion of the Console Wars, this time from Arstechnica.com. Apparently, one of their bloggers had a chance to talk to a GamestopEBGamestop Regional Manager after the "big yearly show," and the aforementioned manager didn't exactly have the rosiest of predictions for the Big S.

"I asked the regional manager about PS3 preorders," one told me "and he paused and then said he can't answer the question. He said there is a plan, but they can't talk about it; we should know in a week to two weeks." He started to sound tired. "Sony just didn't seem like they had a plan with the show. No plan at all. Barely a mention of the PS3, and almost nothing playable. On the other hand, I waited two hours for Gears of War. There is a feeling that Nintendo and Microsoft really set out to wow us, and Sony didn't have much to show. There was a PS3 under glass you could look at, and that's about it."

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"It's going to be ugly, there is no way this launch is going to go well."

Well, it's just a Manager (albeit a Regional one) of one of those retail chains or some such, but... still interesting information. Read the full thing at the above link!