PLAYSTATION 3 Pre-Order Info

 

When Is The PS 3 Release Date?

November 17th for North America • November 11th for Japan • March 2007 for Europe

 

What Is The Price For A PS3?  

20 GB PS 3 is $499 & 60 GB PS 3 is $599. The 60 GB (Giga Bytes) PS 3 has 20 GB more storage, wireless internet capable, and has 3 additional memory card slots in the front. (Both offer USB connections.) 

What Will Ship With The Package?

PlayStation 3 console

SIXAXIS wireless controller

AC cord

USB mini-cable (for charging the SIXAXIS)

Ethernet cable

Multi-AV cable with composite connectors.

Note:The PlayStation 3 does not come with HD cables. You can use your old PS2 cables as they are compatible.

The first 500,000 PlayStation 3s will ship with a copy of Taladega Nights, a month before the official movie release.

Additional accessories:

SIXAXIS controllers for $49.99

Memory card adapter for transferring PS1 and PS2 saves to the PS3 for $14.99

Why Are So Many People Pre-Ordering A PS 3?

Sony only plans to ship 6 Million consoles by March 2007. These will be split evenly between 3 continents. So North America will only see 2 Million consoles before March. The first shipment is expected to be sold out soon. In order to ensure getting a PLAYSTATION 3 under the Christmas tree…thousands are pre-ordering their PS 3 NOW!

Where Can I Pre-Order My PLAYSTATION 3?

Below I have listed reputable merchants with PLAYSTATION 3 availability. The shortage is already happening with big merchants like Amazon already selling out. This list will be updated daily or more. You can be notified by email by joining my "PS 3 Pre-order" watch list and also get a FREE 29 Page Report on the PS 3 by CLICKING HERE. 

Pre-Order with eBay:

This is the route that thousands of people are taking to make sure they get a PS 3. I would highly recommend at least registering with them (Free) to save you time. Prices WILL DROP drastically as the release date approaches. So if you are not registered, I would do it today so that if you find a PS3 you want to bid on you are all set! Listed below is only the first 10 items…hundreds more are actually available…just click anywhere below:

 

Pre-Order with Wal-Mart: NOT AVAILABLE

Pre-Order with Amazon: ALERT IS AVAILABLE

 Amazon is one of the safest places you can buy online and the prices they offer because they have so much buying power can rarely be beaten. Click the picture below and on the top right of the page you can sign up for the "Alert". I highly recommend doing this as the PLAYSTATION 3 will sell out very quickly.

More PS 3 Pre-Ordering Details

The response to the launch of each of the so-called “next-gen” consoles has been absolutely viral. Upon opening their doors to Sony PS3 pre-orders, each outlet that will have systems to sell on launch day has sold out within minutes. In many cases, people camped out for days to get a chance to put a deposit down, that would not even guarantee them a system on launch day in November. So, by the time you’re reading this, it will be impossible to pre-order a PS3 from a major outlet in Japan, Canada, or the United States. Mexico will open to local pre-orders in early 2007, and Europe and Australia’s PS3s will be launched for March 2007. Due to the scale of the launch, and the ravenous appetite with which fans have frenzied around PS3 pre-orders, small suppliers, middlemen, and profiteers alike have leapt on any opportunity to get in on the demand-hiked prices. Pre-orders of the console itself are not the only thing on offer. Domain squatters are auctioning off PS3 pre-order related web domain names for hundreds to thousands of dollars.

“So, if they’re all gone”, you ask, “where can I pre-order a PS3?” The answer is quite simple really, and it involves paying one of the aforementioned profiteers vast sums of money. Sony PS3 pre-orders have been selling for thousands of dollars on Ebay – scarce though they may be. Many small retailers in Japan, the USA, and Canada made sure to get themselves a good spot in line early, buying up several systems (most stores imposed bag limits), to later sell them online. Amazon.com’s pre-orders sold out in a matter of minutes, before they even had time to activate a scheduled mass mail-out, informing those who had requested it that the PS3 pre-orders were open! Fortunately, you won’t necessarily have to fork out $2000 to be guaranteed an early system. Furthermore, some prudent retailers have held back a console or two , to re-open sales once PS3 pre-order availability drops off again.

There are still a few floating around, and sites have been set up to help put people in touch with the few systems up for sale. http://www.ps3preorder.net is a site that aims to do just that, although it is showing only a handful of systems available at the time of writing. PS3Vault has maintained news posts about the whole saga, keeping track of launches and the massive crowds that have gathered to get a change to be one of lucky (determined) few. http://www.ps3vault.com/pre-order-ps3/

Consumer response to the PS3 launch has been overwhelming. The launch of the original Xbox, and its successor, Xbox 360 saw similar marvels, but never on the same scale. Even more of Nintendo’s Wii’s have been pre-ordered, however, given that initial supply and production of the cheaper console is significantly higher than that of Sony’s, people have not gone to the degrees to get hold of one of the systems early as they have to obtain a PS3 pre-order. For European and Australasian consumers, there may be more chances to get hold of systems exported through private sales once the units have been in stores for a couple of weeks. Until then, either get out your chequebook, or find a good book to read!

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