PlayStation 3

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1 Launch
2 Specifications

Launch

The Playstation 3 was released in Japan on November 11, 2006 at 0700. At Bic Camera's Tokyo flagship store and numerous other places, more than 1,000 customers queued up for launch, with staff and police having to keep control. Furthermore there were reports that the launch was disorganized with many of the initial consoles being obtained by businessmen who paid mainly Chinese nationals to buy the console without any software to resell on eBay. According to Media Create, 81,639 PS3 systems were sold in the the 24-hours of its introduction in Japan.

The Playstation 3 was released in North America on November 17, 2006. During its first week of release in the United States, Playstation 3's were being sold on eBay for more than $2300 USD.Reports of violence surrounding the release of the PS3 include a customer shot,campers robbed at gunpoint, customers shot in a drive-by shooting with BB guns, and 60 campers fighting over 10 systems. One man was sent to the hospital for an injury when a stampede began after a Wal-Mart reportedly placed 10 chairs outside of the store and told 50 people to try to get in one of the chairs for a chance to buy one of the 10 systems the store received. Two gunmen robbed a GameStop store the night before the release, taking several Playstation 3 and four Xbox 360 consoles, though later investigations proved the armed robbery to be a fake, pulled off by 2 GameStop employees to cover up their own theft of the systems. Ken Kutaragi has stated that the delayed Playstation 3 will launch in Europe in March 2007.

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