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While the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 in Korea has gotten a lot more blog-time here than you'd expect, it's because of the surprisingly different model they are receiving. An 80GB hard drive, downloadable content and video on demand support (TV shows, etc), lack of the Emotion Engine chip for emulation ... it's like a different console! Perhaps that's one of the reasons why consumers grabbed the system quicker than announcers would be able to talk about the available features.

If you read slowly, the time it took you to get to this paragraph is about the time it took for PS3's to sell out on a popular Korean home shopping channel. Putting 200 units up for pre-sale, the hosts of the show prepared to talk people into buying the expensive system by highlighting all the features. It wasn't necessary. All 200 systems were sold in under three minutes. Sony is amazed and baffled: they expect decent demand for the system now, but they didn't get to talk about what the system could do before they were all gone! Enjoy your PS3 launch next Tuesday, Korea. It seems you're ready for it.

if it were like 30 000 id be amazed but i just thought this was funny

Cool, hopefully the demand is high, it'll definitely help... I think the VoD support out-of-the-box is going to be a BIG deal, it seems very popular in Korea.

In before Gballzack flames this thread like the great Chicago Fire of 1871.

I'll do it for her.

This still happens in stores throughout the United States for the Wii, where people have to actually go to the store and buy it. Only 200....hahaha. Wii sells that many for breakfast.

"In before Gballzack flames this thread like the great Chicago Fire of 1871."

I think you beat her to the punch, buddy. Don't you feel crunchy?

lol

Wait, did I read that right? Sony is surprised that they were able to sell 200 PS3s during a launch on a popular tv show that reaches millions of people...

Wow

Maybe they should start shipping 200 to each region / week, they could surely sell out, then talk about how supply constrained they are. It might work except for the 3 Million already sitting on shelves, Oh well.

 No I feel Krunchy (See Diddy Kong Racing and the elimination game)

S Korean pop is near 50 million, whats the first shipment number ?

 Agreed.