wraggster
January 8th, 2007, 21:13
via tokyo times (http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=1193)
The surprising availability of the PlayStation 3 in both the U.S. and Japan has been well documented – although they do appear to be selling in Tokyo, albeit at a rather more sedate pace than perhaps predicted.
Yet despite this, and the fact that the new PlayStation is region free for gaming, one optimistic Akihabara outlet has outrageously opted to try and sell an imported PS3 for the truly preposterous price of 128,000 yen (1,082 dollars) – just over double the price of an identical Japanese machine.
Needless to say it remains unsold.
The surprising availability of the PlayStation 3 in both the U.S. and Japan has been well documented – although they do appear to be selling in Tokyo, albeit at a rather more sedate pace than perhaps predicted.
Yet despite this, and the fact that the new PlayStation is region free for gaming, one optimistic Akihabara outlet has outrageously opted to try and sell an imported PS3 for the truly preposterous price of 128,000 yen (1,082 dollars) – just over double the price of an identical Japanese machine.
Needless to say it remains unsold.