So the PS3 will be $1199 in NZ. I’m a crazy technophile, but the PS3 holds no appeal. I could have purchased one in the USA this week – they were in stock at a Best Buy in Salt Lake City, but at US$600, and with the demo frozen due to overheating, I really could not justify it. I did get a lovely new camera though.
Meanwhile the Wii (I got one on launch day) is a seriously cool device – breaking the genre. The Wii’s appeal to people that do not like video games is astonishing, and there is prospect of breakthrough titles that use the Wiimote in interesting ways.
The Best Buy in SLC had no Wii for sale – indeed they apparently arrive randomly in shipments of 30, and generally sell out in 30 minutes or less to whomever is in the store at the time. Meanwhile they had sold just one of the 16 odd PS3’s they had in stock over 5 days.
Lance Wiggs 