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With the European release of the PlayStation 3 looming many were getting ready to repeat the madness over the U.S. and Japanese PS3 releases. That was until they found out that the European PS3 was handicapped. That's right, Europe is getting less PS3 for their buck than their American or Asian counterparts.
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In the worldwide marketplace, PlayStation 3 is currently behind its competitor systems, the Xbox 360 and the Wii, both overall and in monthly sales. In Japan the Wii outsold the PS3 by 3 to 1 in August, 4 to 1 in July, 6.5 to 1 in June, 5.6 to 1 in May and 4 to 1 in April;[72][73][74][75] likewise the PS3 sold 2.5 times more units in June than the Xbox 360. In Japan 2,800,576 Wiis have been sold in total, compared to 1,143,798 PS3s; ... the Xbox 360, which was released almost a year earlier than its competitors has sold only 380,131 units.[76][77]
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The PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) will be released in the Spring of 2006. The next generation PlayStation features wireless controllers, broadband capabilities, a hard drive and much more. The PS3 has left skeptics and fans in awe.
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The PlayStation 3 was first released in Japan on November 11, 2006, at 07:00. There were reports that many of the systems were obtained by businessmen who paid mainly Chinese nationals to buy the systems without any problems to resell on eBay.[13] According to Media Create, 81,639 PS3 systems were sold within 24 hours of its introduction in Japan.[14]
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The XFPS adapter that lets you plug in a USB or PS2 mouse and keyboard and map it to the appropriate commands on your PlayStation 3 controller is now available. This thing made sense when it was released for the Xbox 360 (which doesn't support a mouse and keyboard in ANY game), but why would you need it for the PS3? Because although there are loads of USB ports, only a handful of games (UT3, Resistance) let you actually use something else besides the standard controller to play. It ... lets you plug in PlayStation 2 DualShocks. The only downside? It's $99.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today announced plans to introduce a new 40GB model of its PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system. Beginning November 2nd, to further enhance the HD entertainment experience, the new 40GB PS3 model will come bundled with the blockbuster movie Spider-Man(TM) 3 Blu-ray Disc(TM) (BD) from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and will be available in North America for a suggested retail price of $399 (USD/CND). The company ... announced that effective immediately, the current 80GB PS3 model will be available in North America for $499 (USD/CND), $100 below the original launch price.
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