"There is no way the PS3 launch is going to go well"

Last week, thousands of booze-hungry excited GameStop employees descended upon Dallas for the company's annual sales conference. One of the main purposes of the conference is for video game vendors to show off their wares to the nation's number one games retailer. The thought is that the more excited GameStop employees are about your stuff, the more likely they will be to shove it down the throats of customers that unwittingly enter one of GameStops traps stores.

Ars Technica talked to some of this year's show goers about their thoughts on the PS3s prospects. In addition to providing the title of this post, they had this cheery news:

"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."

Frankly, I'm not too worried about launch. And I'm really not worried about GameStop. Almost every launch is a fiasco of epic proportions. Its what happens in the months following launch that is going to actually matter.

[Via Opposable Thumbs]