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Jack Tretton makes a bet he can't cover

Sony's Jack Tretton was possibly drinking during an interview with EGM last month. How else can you explain this zany challenge?

"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it. I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that there's not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes."

This is either due to over-confidence that your console is insanely popular or to the knowledge that you failed at actually delivering any real quantities of the machine to retail at launch. Either way, it's a suckers bet. And Sony is the sucker for even proposing it. Luckily EGM was ready for Jack and had already called 18 stores.... 9 of them had the PS3 in stock.

I wonder if Jack ponied up the cash? Seriously, don't play these "ha ha, you can't even buy my new console!" mindgames with gamers. We're not a very forgiving group.

[Thanks Engadget]

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