Sony’s PlayStation 3 launch in Japan, pictures and video

After all the forecasts of Doom for the latest gaming machine out of the Sony stables, the PS3, seems to be a huge hit in Japan. At the worldwide sales debut of PlayStation 3, Sony’s newest console attracted dozens of media outlets and thousands of people willing to camp outside overnight for a chance to score the 60,000 yen game system.

Check out the video of the Sony PS3 launch by Ken Kutaragi. Keep your eyes peeled about 45 seconds in to see the biggest ever console-related brawl. Squeal piggy, squeal…

Minutes before the clock struck 7:00 A.M. on 11th November, and Sony’s new PlayStation 3 console would officially go on sale, a company representative addressed the crowd of media and the new face of early bird game console buyers.

“Everybody, the PlayStation 3 is the door to a new world of interactive entertainment,” the spunky Japanese rep trumpeted as SCE CEO Ken Kutaragi joined her on stage. As expected, all available stock sold out in the first few hours bringing a relieved reaction from Sony’s beleaguered head of games, Ken Kutaragi, who made an impromptu speech to crowds at Tokyo’s Bic Camera store

“I’m grateful that so many people are waiting for the PS3 … I hope you will enjoy the next-generation entertainment to your heart’s content,” spake the man know as ‘The Father of the PlayStation’.

For the launch of the PS3 in Japan, Sony has released only 80,000 PS3 units available or lower for the whole country, many of the stores decided that they just don’t have enough units to sell at launch and have decided to sell them through raffle drawings. For such stores, there were no huge lines formed. From the look of the lines at the remaining stores, in the video and the pictures below , it looks like there might be a lot of disappointed gamers in Japan as of now as the sony faithful turned out in droves. Check out the PS3 launch video and photos below

Video of the long lines before the launch

The picture below is at Japan’s Akihabara Station

The line goes on and on…. Akihabara center queue

The line for PS3 at Game City in Japan

The literal translation of this is “dude go home and sleep, we are sold out”

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