Chinese fans invade Japanese PS3 launch

11 November 20061 min read12 comments

Taken from ITmedia. So anyway, the CEO of Sony, Mr. Ken Kutaragi, made a surprise visit to a Bic Camera branch at Yuurakuchou to personally hand over a PS3 to the first person in line.

The first guy in line was CHINESE. How cool is that? It’s like having a Chinese be the first guy on the moon, except lamer.

Not only that, CNET Japan was also reporting on the number of Chinese PS3 auction listings they found on Taobao, a Chinese auction site, and predicted yesterday that a lot of the people queuing up would be Chinese. And indeed they were. Even Danny Choo estimated that 30% of the people queuing up were foreigners. Q-Taro and other sources also reported that people, including homeless ones, were being paid to queue up. Imagine how many Japanese gamers walked away empty handed because of the number of Japanese PS3s being shipped to China and all over the world for 1,200 USD or so.

Globalization bites back! :) You get cheap plastic figures and electronics, but you pay for it with PS3s!

Not forgetting the Koreans and the Brits.

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DiGiKerot

12 Nov 2006

It’d have been at least twice as hilarious if the first person in queue was British or some some other EU country given how Sony has been acting recently…
Kurogane

12 Nov 2006

Not really, having a Chinese getting it first has more political impact. I can imagine the peace deals being brokered now.
Tom

12 Nov 2006

We can see it now sony making peace talks with political leaders ;[
DF

12 Nov 2006

can’t really blame chinese for this one guys, hey who said we ain’t crazy enough to be akiba-hype ?! (in fact EVERYONE can be an akiba-hype, guys in u.s. queuing ONE WEEK ahead of time.)
Plus come on, it’s not like they have only one store selling ps3 over there.

I personally find this video way more amusing(I did watch it with a teaspoon of sympathy).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjx6MlWZ2LE
Beowulf

12 Nov 2006

My roommate for my summer school in China was talking about how if he ever got to America, the first thing that he’d buy was a PS2. I asked him why and he explained how PS2’s don’t sell legally there because most people can’t afford one, and the one’s smuggled in are pricey as hell. Oh Chinese people.
Hostile

12 Nov 2006

There’s an article up on Kotaku about these Chinese buying out plenty of PS3s.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php
rakugakid

12 Nov 2006

Huh?? I’m not sure about China but singaporean chinese can buy almost anything they want……..not that they are richer or anything or maybe they are……
prataman

13 Nov 2006

There a store at my place (Jurong Point) that’s selling them already.

Yap, they actually have them IN the store.

If I remeber the price correctly its:

20G HD S$1299
40G HD S$1599

0_o
exalt dragon

13 Nov 2006

@prataman: Goes to support my point: PS3 is too expensive right now and the pricing helps no one.
dung dung

14 Nov 2006

US$1400 for 60gb version in my place. Nuts!
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babesonwheels

28 Aug 2007

there’s no surprise on how many chinese can afford to purchase the overpriced ps3.
Just think of the state of economy now, everywhere business it’s booming.
The same fucktards that snatch away our manufacturing jobs, delivering poison-laced toys and do them for peanuts.

Now i better check whether or not my anime figurines contains lead…

Chinese fans invade Japanese PS3 launch

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