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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.

The hd-dvd addon drive for 360 is $250.. for essentially the same quality. Blu-ray being included in the price of the ps3 is no special bargain.

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haha ok thanks for the info.

Just an update, I have paid off my PS3 pre-order in full. I got EB to price match the ToysRUs pre-order deal as they were more then happy to do it.

So I got the PS3 + Resistance Fall of Man + Motorstorm and 50% off another game for $1099

Being a VIP member at EB I also got $30 off Tony Hawk

All up it cost me under $1400 for my pre-order which is the following

PS3

Motorstorm

Resistance Fall Of Man

Tony Hawk

F1 CE

Ridge Racer 7

I haven't head anything about the Australian version being cutdown. I have also just done some research to see if I could find anything but alas I turned up nothing. Can you point in the right direction on where you found this info?

i wouldn't waste your time with F1, it's subpar as have been f1 games for some years now.

Also if we are going to do the debate of hd costing 250 on the 360 also throw in the fact wireless for the 360 is 169.95.

The 360 is great, the ps3 will be great, not one title on launch is a system seller. As is with every new console almost, which i have pointed out before.

by the sounds of your job hanyou we may be talking to each other as well!

nobody by the looks of things... :P price is too high for joe consumer for a while.. including me..

The launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 games console got off to a feeble start last night last night with officials, media and security outnumbering customers for most of the evening.

Over 500 retailers around the country threw open their doors as the clock struck 12:00am, expecting the frenzy that accompanied the games console's overseas debuts.

But most stores were virtually deserted, despite the 20,000 pre-orders Sony said it had received.

Even at the official launch event held at Myer's Pitt Street store in Sydney's CBD and attended by Sony's local managing director, Michael Ephraim, media and security outnumbered PS3 fans until at least 11:00pm.

At midnight, about 40 PS3 buyers had arrived to collect their consoles, causing distress for the army of camera crews who turned up expecting to capture launch mayhem.

Desperate producers unashamedly asked the crowd to fake excitement when the cameras were rolling, while a team from 2Day FM let out bogus cheers to convince their radio listeners that a launch extravaganza was underway.

The scene was a stark contrast to the US launch in November last year, where one man was shot by thieves and fights broke out over limited stock.

yeah well I guess considering people like me who bought one 5 months ago at the real launch would have lost interest by now, and everyone else would be sick of hearing wankers like me banging on about how they got their PS3 in early november!! lol

big mistake by sony to no release it simultaneously with the rest of the world. it's certain to have pissed people off who feel they are no longer buying some special, brand new, latest console. 5 months ago it was the shit. now it's just another console (albeit a damn good one).

I wouldn't mind one.. but $999 is a lot when there aren't a heap of games to choose from right away.. I will probably wait 12 months until there are a few more games to choose from.

I think the price here is about $109 for most games - why would anybody buy games locally when you can import them for about $75 thanks to a high aussie dollar?? Sony is strange sometimes.

^^^

well almost every console in the world is released here later than oversea's so i don't see how that would of made a difference at all.

PSX was launched in 94 in japan, 95 in australia, ps2 was released march 2000 japan, and october 2000 in australia,

gamecube was launched september off the top of my head in japan and march the following year here,

psp was launched in november in japan and mid the next year over here.

So i don't see where you are going with that.

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