all we know how much we awaited about PS 3 & it's release . The mighty monster is finally released by Sony in Japan recently & it's starting new kinda madness over it.
"Tokyo - After its sell-out launch, the PlayStation 3 buying frenzy has jetted into cyberspace with some owners asking up to four times the retail price on Japanese internet auction sites on Monday.
Only 100 000 PS3s were shipped by Sony for Saturday's launch in Japan due to production problems with the DVD player, so many thousands of would-be buyers went away empty handed.
Now those with cash to burn have a second chance, with dozens of brand-new, still-boxed PS3s on sale online amid reports many of those who queued up were not real game fans but were instead being paid by black marketeers.
One PS3 with a 60-gigabyte hard drive which would have cost about $500 in Japanese stores was on sale on Monday on the internet auction site eBay for an asking price of $2 300.
Others were attracting bids from $600 up to as high as $1 475.
Paid homeless people
While many of Saturday's buyers gushed enthusiastically about the power of the PlayStation, there were others who admitted they had never before owned one and appeared reluctant to talk about why they were queuing up in the cold.
Homeless people were apparently being paid by middle men to queue up for consoles that are now being sold on the black market to dodge the "one per customer" rule.
PS3s have also been fetching as much as three times the retail price online in the United States ahead of their launch there on Friday as people sell their pre-ordered consoles in advance.
Despite the strong launch, investors were keeping a lid on their optimism with Sony shares down ¥30 or 0.6% at ¥4 640 in early afternoon trade.
Analysts noted that the brisk demand on day one was largely expected and the real question is whether Sony can meet its forecast to ship six million PS3s worldwide by March 2007.
Lack of game titles
The launch comes at a time when the world's second-largest consumer electronics firm is struggling to regain consumer confidence amid a wave of technical problems including recalls of millions of its computer batteries.
Mitsuhiro Osawa, an analyst at Mizuho Investors Securities, said he expects a rather slow start for PS3, citing a lack of game titles that can be played on the console.
"For Sony, how sales will fare in the next year when software publishers are expected to release more titles is a focal point.
"But there should be no problem in selling out the initial lot as the so-called 'early adapters' - or those consumers who prefer buying any new product - will jump on them," he said.
The success of the console is considered vital to a revival at Sony, which is in the midst of major restructuring including 10 000 job cuts under its first foreign chief executive, the Welsh-American Howard Stringer.""Despite Sony’s best efforts at blocking so-called grey imports, or products sold and shipped from abroad, a number of sellers on eBay are offering PlayStation 3 consoles from Japan as well as pre-orders from shops in the US in anticipation of the console’s release this weekend.
The price for the model has reached over £915 at the time of press, and one seller is offering a Buy-it-now price of £999.
A number of listings are for units to be shipped from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, with some sellers promising to refund any VAT that may be slapped on when it enters UK shores.
A listing for a pre-order for a 20GB unit from the US has reached over £500, while a 60GB unit has been sold for £1,220.
However, some listings are rather misleading, with sellers promising that the units are region free. There is some confusion over the region encoding of games and Blu-ray discs.
A spokesperson has confirmed that Blu-ray discs are indeed region encoded, as are both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games, so that if you buy one of the units from Japan, you won’t be able to play older European games on it. PS3 games are indeed region-free, but there are only about 5 available at the moment. "
& yeah to add that there are some PS 3 disassembly videos are around on youtube which you can check ( ofcourse without buying or hurting your own )
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PS3+disassembly&search=Search
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