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i'll give you some details about ps3 launch in switzerland now. as i anounced, i went to basel today around 5 p.m. and took a look at two stores to see how ps3 is selling. first, i went to a huge store (media markt). when i came in, i already saw around thirty ps3 behind an info deck. i think that were the ones that had been pre-ordered. in the gaming section of the store, there were again around thirty ps3 and while i was there, i saw nobody buying one. i then asked a shop assistent how ps3 sells. his answer was: dragging. he said that they expected more and that there were much less people at the midnight party then they expected aswell. interesting was that i saw nobody from sony in the store. when wii was launched, somebody from nintendo was there and today, an xbox-guy was in the store. it seems that microsoft really tries to beat sony during their launch. after that, i went to a small game shop. there was also a tower of ps3's but while i was in the store (it was not more then a quarter of an hour) i saw at least six guys buying a ps3. they had all preordered their console. i then asked the shop owner if he's content with the launch and he said he was. this seems to show what we already knew: ps3 sells good to hardcore gamers and bad to casuals. btw. while i saw more than hundred ps3 today, i just saw eight wii's, five in media markt and three in the game shop.



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