Sony has just announced a lovely Satin Silver PS3 for Japan. It looks like the one we've been seeing in pictures all this time, ever since the system's debut. This new one is a 40GB model, priced exactly the same as the other Japanese 40GB models: 39,980 yen (about $375US).
Knowing that this is priced exactly as the other white and black 40GB models, you shouldn't be surprised to find out that the DualShock 3 isn't included. No one would buy the other two models if they packed it in, right?
Speaking of the DualShock 3, they also announced a matching color release. Should you want to add one to your Satin Silver rig, you'll need to budget for another 5,500 yen ($52).
Why do they wait so long to give us the colors?
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11:06 AM on 02.05.2008
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You should be able to import one from Play-Asia, I plan to get one myself when I have the cash. I hear they work fine with all regions of console.
Lol.
Get one. It's worth it. I'm finally buying PS3 games now that I have one.
Great review DVD, I can't wait until they come over to the states. I'll be the first one to pick one up.
The US is just too big a market to keep multiple colors in stock from sea to shining sea.
It's the same reason we don't have a Club Nintendo program like Japan, why we get crappy pre-order bonuses, why our manuals are usually black and white instead of color, etc. etc.
I still haven't figured out why our box art always has to suck though.
However, I agree completely with Fading_Star. No Dualshock, no backwards compatibility ... this is nothing more than a profile 2.0-ready Blu-ray player.
Black is colour of pure evil, much nicer.
Frankly, I like that the PS3 is black. It matches with all my other home theater equipment. They really need to bring that DS3 to America, though...
STFUAJPG
PROTIP: Buy the DS3 separately and use the SIXAXIS as the crappy controller your friends use. That is unless you don't have friends and just complain about things on the internet all day.
I'd think he'd be red and black.
You forgot no HDMI cable and no good exclusive games.
I mean, there's no reason that the Dualshock 3 shouldn't be available stateside. There's even less reason for them to not pack them in with the 80GB console. Why not use the new version of the cheaper component to sell the on-the-way-out expensive component? I probably would've broken down and bought an 80GB if the fucking controller rumbled. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I played some GC games with a wavebird. No rumble sucks, no matter how you slice it.
And an HDMI cable in the box wouldn't be a crime, I mean, they can certainly get them for less than $6.
The least Sony could do is give us a USB cable longer than 4 feet, and AT LEAST an S-video cable instead of this A/V crap. I can't play my PS3 while the controller is charging, and while S-video isn't HDMI, but it's damn close to component, and nobody is going to buy an overpriced Sony-branded HDMI cable, anyway. Now, DS3 is delayed some more... just because.
Okay, I admit that BC isn't as big as I thought it would be, and getting rid of it on the low-end machines was a good idea after all. The 40GB model is selling better than I anticipated. The system itself is really nice...
...but still, Sony... please... work on the accessories!
Maybe the best time to have launched this one would have been
before Christmas being after, It's almost as though they are trying to slip it in while no ones looking.
Games-asia have got some good bits,
http://www.games-asia.com/playstation3ps3console40gbsaturnsilver110v-p-3091.html
Well in any case my scanner, printer, notepad are all silver
so I guess if I get a Silver PS3 it would fit right in ;)