UK PS3 Launch

It is here at last it seems. In fact it is per­fectly clear that it has arri­ved — news­pa­pers are filled with ads shou­ting about the PS3s that they have in stock — get them now! And, on peru­sing the shop­ping cen­tres late on Satur­day, I noti­ced that every elec­tro­nics store out­let from Game-station to HMV and Curry’s Digi­tal had large pro­tru­ding signs announ­cing “Plays­ta­tion 3 in stock… hurry”. Should I have had £500 to lay down on a sys­tem + game I could have bought one from anywhere. Though, if I wan­ted to buy myself a Wii I would be hard pres­sed to find one; HMV, Game, et al. had all sold out and many sto­res still had wai­ting lists. I’ll take my £300 + Wii over a PS3 and Resis­tance Fall of Man any day, in fact, 4 months later I and my house-mates still avidly play Wii Sports. I do plan to purchase a PS3 (ICO 3, Little Big World), though not for a good 18 months.