Categories: Gaming

The PlayStation 3 will be released on Friday on this side of the world, and will herald the beginning of another round in the console wars. In Japan, the console has already been released, from Saturday in fact. You’d think the $600 dollar price tag would deter them, but surprisingly not. A great many have been sold. Wanna guess? Ok, ready, go. 88,400. Nowhere near your estimation huh? I know its Japan, the land that tech built, but this is ridiculous! And guess what? Only 100,000 were released. Nearly 90% sold in two days. Impressive Sony. Most impressive. The two top selling gamers were Ridge Racer 7 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight. Hmph. If a Gundam game wasn’t up there. Only in Japan.

It’s crazy over there. They are being sold for four times the retail price. Homeless people are being paid to line up for them. Used PS3s are being sold above the price of the new ones. And, needless to say, they’re popping up all over auction sites like EBay. I think Sony is pulling the oldest trick in economics, and decreasing supply to increase demand. I don’t believe their “difficulty with the Blu-ray DVD player” excuse for one minute. Or maybe they are telling the truth, but the way things are now, aren’t be in rush to fix things.

I thought with the amount of displeasure gamers expressed over the price, you’d think they would camp out in front of Sony’s offices in protest. Instead they are camping out of stores, allowing the man to trample over them just to waste their lives in the land the cel-shaded and the pre-rendered a little sooner. You see? This is why Sony is doing this to you! I hope the people at the American release will show some resistance. Oh who am I kidding? There are 30 million Playstation fans in the US, and there’ll be only 400,000 systems released. They’ll be too exhausted to put up much of a fight. Ok Sony, you win. I wonder how much a human soul fetches these days?