antonOO2
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What are the pros and cons of buying a jap or american version ,as i would love one in time for christmas?
cheers
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Marc
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GEEK DAY
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corsa_chelle
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there's one on ebay for £1500.00
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sukhwant
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cons : you won't acctually get one before christmas, and if your could, you'd prob have to re-mortage your house to get one
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mwg
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quote: Originally posted by corsa_chelle
there's one on ebay for £1500.00
link
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jaffa
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Playstation-3-PS3-60gb-Console-Presale-Worldwide-Ship_W0QQitemZ280044652153QQihZ018QQcategoryZ11328QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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corsa_chelle
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i don't know how to link just search on ebay for playstation 3 consoles 2nd down
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Baz-Zico
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Auctions like that are deleted by ebay
after the xbox 360 fiasco, if you cannot supply the winner of the auction with the actual product, and not just a reciept for a pre-order, within 30 days, such auctions are deleted and in some cases the seller account suspended
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corsa_crew
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there is no point - same old story all old disks and new games etc wont work on them as they are different region so every newgame would have to be ordered from over there - also there is a problem with the power supply - and you would simply blow up a ps3 which was amde for us or japan - if you plugged it over here - so you would need to spend more money to get a transformer to correct the power supply to the unit.
so big con - waste of money and i personal suggest just wait till march when these issues wont be a problem and the price wont be nearly as high
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Cavey
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PS3 is actually Region Free, so you can play any games on them.
But yeah, i would wait until they are released in the UK
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topshot_2k
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im affraid your incorrect there, PS3 will only play NTSC games, therefore you will n
only be able to buy games from usa/asia
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topshot_2k
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as for plug/power thats not a problem as a simple £5 converter will work, it wont blow up as the PS3 will only draw the power it needs
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Cavey
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Well, i read in Stuff mag that it was region free, was a few months ago so could have changed, or indeed, been incorrect info, anyway, wait till March
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John
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They are talking about voltage blowing the ps3 up although most electronics come with a worldwide transformer these days.
Good luck finding somebody who will import one for you though.
And as Marc said, quite obviously, Geek Day.
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