Have you guys seen the news? Literally thousands of geeky boys lining up the streets of Japan to get their hands on the latest offering by Sony, the PlayStation 3.
Waaaaaah! I want my Halo back.
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TOKYO -- Thousands of game fans queued for hours, braving Tokyo's early morning chill and occasional showers, as Sony's much-heralded and delayed PlayStation 3 game console went on sale on Saturday.
The PS3 is the latest entrant to the near $30 billion video game industry and will be fighting Microsoft's Xbox 360, on sale for the past year, and Nintendo's Wii, which will be in U.S. stores next week, for market share.
"I've been waiting for this day to come for so long. I'll play it all through the weekend. No time for meals," said hardcore gamer Tomoaki Nakamura, who already owns a PlayStation, a PlayStation 2, a PlayStation Portable handheld machine and an Xbox 360.
Nakamura, 41, was one of about 1,200 people in the meandering line around electronics retailer Bic Camera's flagship shop in central Tokyo.
Further up the queue was Robyn Sinclair, a 25-year-old exchange student from Vancouver. "It's the newest system, the latest and greatest thing ... although the Nintendo Wii looks very interesting, too," said Sinclair, who waited for more than 12 hours in the late autumn chill to score one of this year's hottest holiday items.
In the countdown to the 7.00 a.m. store opening, Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony's game unit, spoke to those in the queue. "I'm grateful that so many people are waiting for the PS3 ... I hope you will enjoy the next-generation entertainment to your heart's content," he said.
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