Heads up to all my UK neighbours, play.com are selling the gunmetal gray 40gb bundle for PAL regions.....

I just preordered it myself since I was planning on getting it anyway for MGS4.

It's £329 instead of the RRP for the black bundle of £319 (or £299 that play could have it), but still a good deal IMO.

edit (here is the link): http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/5601357/Sony-Playstation-3-PS3-Gun-Metal-Grey-Console-+-40GB-HDD-+-MGS4/Product.html?dpr=2723

p.s. There is still hope this comes with DS3 (but i doubt it)

Seen this earlier and if i didn't already have the 60GB i may have considered it...

Still good news for us in the UK to have the option

Why can no one spell grey?

OT: Great bundle. Should definetly boost hardware sales. Personally, I don't like the colour though.

Well I hope for your sake its true because a Konami spokesman said there will be no Gun metal edition for the UK just today:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/20/no-gun-metal-gray-ps3-for-u-k/

Joystiq are rechecking with Konami on this.

Gamespot has more information. There will be limited edition stuff, but no Gun metal:

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26394174

Its there but can't tell if its a six-axis or DS3 controller. The picture does have a gray/grey one.

^^ Well as another poster said at kotaku, it wouldn't make sense for sony to start the manufacture of the sixaxis again in order to provide a few grey ones for the UK.....
However, them being sony, they don't make sense a lot of the time so i wouldn't get my hopes up

on the play.com website, it says the gun metal colour is play.com exclusive.

 Grey became the established British spelling in the 20th century, pace Dr. Johnson and others,^[94] and is but a minor variant in American English, according to dictionaries. Canadians tend to prefer grey. Non-cognate greyhound is never grayhound.

source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Miscellaneous_spelling_differences