First UK Playstation 3 pre-order schemes open

[Stoo]

Two retailers have twitched first, and opened up their pre-order schemes for Sony's latest console, the Playstation 3.

www.dvd.co.uk at a wallet-busting £499 (€728.54)
and
Gamestation at a slightly more realistic £424.99.

Or you can, as a little mole tells me, pop into most GAME stores and put yourself on the highly unofficial pre-pre-order list - if you don't mind being cajoled into buying a bundle there and then when you go to collect that is..

[Whiternoise]

hmmm... 400+ for a console that is mediocre and chunky or ~400 for a full featured 360 and a Wii?

Still, I'd like to know how many people sign up for it..

[Stoo]

360 is the same, or greater price once you add on the hdd, wi-fi, wireless controller, and later on the HD-DVD drive.

You pays yer money, you makes yer choice.

The big winner in all of this though is the big N - free marketing by both sides, and cheap enough (probably) to be a parent-friendly christmas present!

Hopefully with this Nintendo won't need to prop the business up with gameboy/ds sales, which will allow them to invest a lot more in R&D for whatever they come up with next

[j.o.s.h.1408]

360 and wii for me

[Stoo]

/me fetches the mop...

[UKMuFFiN]

ill get a ps3, not sure bout pre ordering one though, maybe nearer the release...

[johnny02004976]

i'll keep my £500 tucked in my back pocket thanks - bring on that 42" HDTV please

[UKMuFFiN]

i'll keep my £500 tucked in my back pocket thanks - bring on that 42" HDTV please

you'll need a bit more then £500 in your pocket for 42"er, plus you wont have a ps3 to play on it...

[ExceededGoku]

I think I'd rather have all 3 tbh... rather than miss out on some great games (all consoles have their own brilliant games)

[UKMuFFiN]

I think I'd rather have all 3 tbh... rather than miss out on some great games (all consoles have their own brilliant games)

I think we'd all rather have all three, takes the difficulty out of specing each one up and checking the games line up.

I think we'd all like the ca£h to be able to do it too

[Shazbot]

I have to admit I'll be buying myself a PS3 to sit alongside my XBOX 360.

Not convinced on the Wii as yet as I was never a big fan of Nintendos games. Too cutesy for my taste and those that weren't were available on the other consoles. However, the Wii-mote sounds very interesting and I hope the games manufacturers utilise it beyond games such as tennis. I would give my right eye to use something like that on the 360's Oblivion. Listen up Bill!

I definitely won't be going for the HD-DVD add-on for the 360 though simply because I don't think it will win the format war. Blu-Ray has more corporate weight behind it. Unless the 3 studios backing HD-DVD go into release overdrive they are going to be swamped by the Blu-Ray camp. But judging by the current HD-DVD releases It's not looking good.

[dom_xbox]

I would... possibly just go for the Wii... but as i went for the GC over the XboX and the PS2 first... I might wait... tbh i dont really play many console games (well ok... maybe RE4 for the PS2 and a few xbox titles)...

but apart from that i think ill just knock on some random persons door, pretend to know them and try to get a go on their new console...

[YorkieBen]

Dixons in Leeds have had a banner up for about a month saying they are taking PS3 pre-orders

[Stoo]

It's not an offical DSG-wide campaign though is it?

Several individual stores have had pre-orders open for a while (without having any pricing attached), but gamestation is the first with a company-wide & internet pre-order scheme.