The Sony PlayStation 3 console is without a doubt the hottest item on the market right now. Thousands of people are looking to buy one, unfortunately most retail stores in the United States can only stock a handful. It was reported that people were camping outside these tents the night before to get one. Due to their limited stock, some stores choose to give a mark to each person who showed up on the launch date. Then they took their numbers out of a box, the lucky ones had the pleasure of acquiring the PlayStation 3 console.
For anyone unfortunate enough to miss out on shopping at a retailer, it’s going to cost a lot more to get one elsewhere. Advertisements appear in the newspapers all the time offering them for sale. Online auction site eBay and Yahoo Auctions sell them like hot cakes. Opening bids in many cases are several hundred dollars more than the retail system would cost you. For those parents who don’t want to disappoint their children with this highly anticipated console, cost is not an issue. Many game enthusiasts are also doing everything they can to get their hands on the new PlayStation 3.
The retail price of the PlayStation 3 console is on average $499.00. You might be lucky to find it a bit less if you shop around, but that price is the ballpark figure. At the time of writing this article, I took a quick look on eBay to notice that they are currently selling for between $800 and $1,250 on eBay. If you’re not one of the many gaming enthusiasts, you may be wondering what it is about the PlayStation 3 that drives such demand.
If you’ve got your hands on the latest hot property, be careful. In some cases, shoppers have been harassed by their console as soon as they left the store. Only to have it left empty-handed in a matter of minutes due to thieves. In addition, the number of robberies that are taking place in electronics stores in the country is unimaginable. In most cases, all that was taken was stock PlayStation 3 consoles. This all seems a bit harsh to me, but it’s happening.
So what’s included with the PlayStation 3 console? First of all, it incorporates excellent memory capacities. You can play games on it and watch your favorite movies. Games for PlayStation 1 and 2 are designed to work on the PlayStation 3 console, and you will be able to experience high definition on them. The PlayStation 3 is reported to be the most powerful video game console on the market today; it’s twice the power of the Xbox. It has also been designed to be 35 times more powerful than its predecessor, the PlayStation 2.
An added benefit of your PlayStation 3 console is that it can be used for free online gaming. You have the option of downloading Internet games and videos to the console’s hard drive. As for the technical aspects, the PlayStation 3 comes equipped with 256 MB of 3.2 GHz main RAM and 256 MB of 700 MHz VRAM. The system is equipped with Dolby sound for great quality. The higher specification in the system is very evident in the graphics of the games.
The PlayStation 3 console is the most demanded item today. Gamers all over the world have been anticipating the arrival of PlayStation 3. It has not yet been released worldwide. The planned release date for the European, African, Middle Eastern and Australasia territories is March 23, 2007. Approximately 1 million units are expected to be available on the release date, to be spread across all PAL territories.
