Okay UK gamers, you can't complain about the PS3 anymore.

[Valkysas]

US gamers get SHOT and TRAMPLED for our launch.

UK gamers? Free HDTVs and cab rides home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6474045.stm

At the London launch everyone who bought a PS3 also received a free 46-inch HD television and a taxi home. In total, the giveaway amounted to £250,000 worth of televisons to more than 100 gamers.

[Funk]

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.........

I'm not sure if it's possible, but can we break away from England again?

[Magus]

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At last... a world without sin...

[Caciss]

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Sony you've stolen my heart. :3

[RPGD]

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I am in England.

Ha.

Not for long, though.

D'oh!

[Misty]

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We Americans who buy the PS3 don't even get a cab ride home.



HOPE YOU UK GAMERS LIKE YOUR NEW FREE HDTVS!!!

[DarkwingChuck]

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Bloody hell.

[JPS]

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I wanna know how they got those 46" HDTVs home in a cab

[Chad]

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I could have used that.

[Denmo]

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It's only ~100 people. That's the first handful of people who stuck it out for 5 days in line in front of the supermarket. Yay for them.

[Misty]

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I wanna know how they got those 46" HDTVs home in a cab

They didn't use the cab--they used the Queen's Royal Magical Flying Chariot service!

[Vonwert]

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Bastard English....enjoy your HD tv with your fish and chips.....you lucky bastards!!!

[DarkwingChuck]

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It's only ~100 people. That's the first handful of people who stuck it out for 5 days in line in front of the supermarket. Yay for them.

Actually, Kotaku says the guy at the front of the line had only waited 36 hours. I guess they don't do launch camp outs like we do. Maybe I should send Sony a letter saying I won't get a PS3 unless they send me a free HDTV.

Kotaku: Reader Sebastian did a quick translation of a German article covering the Berlin midnight launch. Somewhere between 150 and 200 people showed up at the Sony Center (Berlin's population is over 3 million). There was a stage event involved either A). Boy in his underwear or B). Bald man jumping on an Xbox 360 and calling it "junk." Don't you just love it when Germans jump on stuff? What's more, at an electronics chain called Saturn, customers could climb a wall and chuck their own Xbox 360 down, destroying it. Fifty people could get free PS3s by doing so. Don't you just love it when Germans break stuff? I'm sure the clever ones brought their bricked Xbox 360s!

[Crimson Knight]

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US gamers get ROBBED, MUGGED, SHOT and TRAMPLED for our launch.

Fixed. UK gamers shouldn't be complaining in the first place. They get teh pr0n on prime time.

[Shard]

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425 pounds sterling is like $7,000 US.