Yesterday Sony’s next generation gaming console, Playstation 3 went on sale at some of the Japanese stores. Two variants of PS3 were sold, one with WiFi and a 60GB hard drive which costs around 60,000 yen ($510) and another one with 20 GB Hard Drive and no WiFi sells for 49,980 yen ($425).
Due to the hot demand, the console is already selling at an inflated price on some the auction sites. The 60GB model is selling with a inflate price of 90,000 yen ($765), while the 20Gb model goes for around 70,000 yen ($595) at Yahoo Japan’s auction site.
Thousands of Playstation fans lined up outside stores, but only 80,000 unit were sold, so many of them had to return empty handed. Sony plans to ship 100,000 units to Japan each week and around 400,000 units will be available for purchase by the tome Nintendo’s Wii hits the market.
Playstation fans from North America, Honk Kong and Taiwan will have to waiting until November 17, European Consumers are out of luck, they might have wait until March 2007.
Photo Courtesy: GameSpot
Thanks: Freakitude
Update: Neha Tiwari from C|net news has interesting Video comparing both PS3 and Wii, Check it out
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