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Well I could get you pics before that when distributors recieve their stock.

lol, well if we are playing that game I can post some pics of when I bought mine at the japan release 5 months ago. hehehe

a few days before release playing at the Sony Building in Ginza, Tokyo.

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playing GTHD at the beginning of november

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in my room at the Osaka hilton unpacking the PS3 for a night of playing. nothing better than coming home to a massive hotel room after a night of street drift and a little togue driving to play your new, sold out PS3 and enjoy some 24h room service. :)

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mmm 60gb goodness. :laugh:

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I see Ridge Racer!!! Whats it like? I have added it to my game pre-orders with the console as I have just got into play Ridge Racer on the PSP again.

[Edit] In regards to the 24 hour room service I wonder if my g/f would be nice enough to provide that for me.

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if you like ridge racer on the psp you will love RR on PS3. awesome fun. the six-axis control is cool too. and the online play is great. very fast, and lots of players. my favourite has been Resistance fall of man. buy that too if you haven't already. its online play is awesome too. and best of all free. :)

edit: I can confirm the hilton room service was excellent. had them send up some kirin brau meister, some rice snacks and some yakitori at 3am, then some ice cream... such good service too. but at $400 a night it would bloody well want to be!

haha my pre-order for my ps3 is as follows

60 gig PS3

Ridge Racer

Resistance Fall Of Man

Tony Hawk

F1 CE

Motorstorm

Whats that setting you back, $1,600? :)

$1k is ridiculous for a gaming console, sure its got blu-ray and they are already selling the console at a

loss, but if they dropped it to $800 it would be alot better and they would get heaps more sales.

They are going to make the money back on software sales regardless so i dunno why they didnt just do that.

I'll probably wait till xmas to grab one of these, when they either have a price drop or bundle it with a free game, and yes im a playstaton fan, i have both the previous consoles.

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Yeah, I have been a PS fan for ages as well. Once I heard about the PS3 and after watching the videos and such I just really want the console to try it out. I guess you can say I am abit geeky when it comes to this sort of thing. If you pre-order from one harvey norman store in queensland it comes bundled with a free game of your choice and a spare controller.

I have been saving my penies since march last year and I now have enough money to cover my pre-order. Next I need to save up for my new TV.

i don't think $1000 is unreasonable at all. I wasn't even going to get one, but when I saw them and had the opportunity to buy one at the japan release I just decided on the spot to grab one. it's basically a decent PC with a blu-ray drive for $1000. well worth it.

i don't think $1000 is unreasonable at all. I wasn't even going to get one, but when I saw them and had the opportunity to buy one at the japan release I just decided on the spot to grab one. it's basically a decent PC with a blu-ray drive for $1000. well worth it.

100% agree even the graphics on the 1st round of games which have been rls is extremmely good!

can't wait till the ps3 is rls in australia, as i want to by the F1 game but no point importing it as the jap one doesnt have online :laugh:

Yeah i know its cheap for what it has in it, blu-ray players are $1500 alone in the shops. But for a mass produced unit i just think they could have sold it for a bit cheaper, as they will no doubt make MASSIVE profits off the software to re-gain the hardware losses.

EDIT: Having said all that, i was in Myer today and they had a PS3 on display and its changed my mind, i'll probably get one on launch lol. The games looked farken awesome. Resistance: Fall of Man looks really goood, and apparently Gran Turismo HD is a free download off the online network on release?

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Yeah i know its cheap for what it has in it, blu-ray players are $1500 alone in the shops. But for a mass produced unit i just think they could have sold it for a bit cheaper, as they will no doubt make MASSIVE profits off the software to re-gain the hardware losses.

EDIT: Having said all that, i was in Myer today and they had a PS3 on display and its changed my mind, i'll probably get one on launch lol. The games looked farken awesome. Resistance: Fall of Man looks really goood, and apparently Gran Turismo HD is a free download off the online network on release?

it was released months ago. been available free to download on line since christmas eve last year. it's basically just HD GT4, but with drift mode too. GT5 on the other hand will be spectacular. no doubt about it.

Apparently its only like one map with a few cars though? GT HD that is.

I can understand that though as its really just a tech demo to show off the PS3's potential isnt it?

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yeah, I've had HD since late last year. it's just a demo basically, not a full game. it has a few tracks in it, and a few cars, and a few options. just to show off GT in High Def. it looks very nice. and still fun to play.

I'm gonna wait until someone can hook me up mod chip and cheap games. I think the PS3 is priced alright, just don't want to pay $100 and over for a game that might be total shit.

Waiting for a modchip hey.... You got yourself a blu-ray burner and blu-ray media, Its gonna be expensive for awhile to backup your PS3 stuff.

well, what about a modchip, 800gb external hard drive, and a on chip program that will make images of the blueray games direct to external (or internal for that matter) hard drive. I do it with PS2. quite a mod for my slim-ps2 tho, i chipped it myself, 1st one took me 2 hours 2nd one took me 1 hour and 20 mins, 3rd one took me 48 minutes.

I played a PS3 the other night; certainly wasn't impressed. Sixth-axis feels like a cheap gimmick to me, and the console is large enough to make a crater when dropped. However I'll reserve final judgement 'til I see Metal gear solid, tekken, final fantasy and Gran Turismo on it :wave:

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