Japanese PS3 On The Grey Market
If you didn’t manage to get a PlayStation 3 in Japan over the weekend, you can buy a “used” one from $1,200 to $1,500. Apparently this was a business plan for many, they paid homeless people to queue in line on their behalf, then secured a number of consoles, and are now profiting big time. According to Kotaku, some Japanese business men hired poor Chinese people to wait in line. None of this comes at a surprise, a low supply plus high demand equals high prices. Expect a similar situation in the US in 4 days, albeit the much larger amount of console available.
According to videogame magazine Enterbrain, Sony sold 88,400 PS3 units in two days, of which 62% were the high end model (60 GB).
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November 13th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
what a bunch of arseholes those sellers are, but what kind of idiot would pay three times as much for somethign when they could do something as simple as wait.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Lots of people … you know for the most parts humans are impatient when they want something and have been waiting a while. Also some people use the “live everyday as though it were your last” philosophy which given the times we live in isn’t really all that illogical. The only thing is I am only seeing 10 launch titles in the Best Buy ad and if that is really all Sony has ready then that is really pathetic.
Never mind the console is still going to see out every singe one it makes for the next 6 months at least … the point is they don’t have a decent library of games … well I guess since all the PS2 games are BC they do have waaay more games than the 360 but let’s be honest we are talking new Next-gen titles here and they are sorely lacking … it’s looking like software wise they will do the worst of the three. Losing FEAR and Oblivion until next year didn’t help, nor did UT2K7 being late when that was going to be the big seller for the PS3. And then throw in the fact that there is no Live 07 B-Ball for the PS/3 and you see the point.