Queues form for PS3

WITH ONLY NINE days to go before Sony's Playstation 3 is launched in the US queues are already being seen across the land in a bid to snap up the first machines.

According to videogamesblogger.com the queues are small at this point, but they seem bizarrely determined.

The obvious question that needs to be put to such types is "do they have a life?" but clearly since the punters are probably planning to spend a lot of time playing on a games console the issue is probably superfluous. We just hope for Sony's sake that the highly expensive PS3 is worth taking two weeks out of your life to wait for.

Sony is draining its limited supplies of the machine to get the beast into US stores. This is at the expense of Sony's Japanese market. Giving so many machines to the Americans means that Sony has no plans to launch the console in the UK and Europe until it gets really cold. Euro punters who want to queue for their PS3 will have to hope that they get some really warm woollies from Santa this Chrimbo.

There are some pictures of the American PS3 mania here although since the queue is only seven people long it more a gathering than a seething serpent of expectation. µ