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Japanese PS3 Launch Proves Waiting In Line Is Nation’s Most Exciting Activity

Karson Thompson

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What do you get when you take 80,000 and divide it by the population of Japan? Apparently you get the percentage of people who want a PS3 and will actually get one without eBaying their house and selling a limb to the Yakuza. The PS3 is about to drop in Japan and people are massing around the stores in spite of signs telling them to go home because they’ve already sold out. Sony’s ingenious plan to leave hoards of people unsatisfied starts now: the important question is, do those people have a PS3 or not?

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