Comments on: European DualShock 3 launch is “imminent”, says SCEE president

By: patlike

patlike — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:15:42 +0000

Just replied to your mail, dude.

By: whoelse

whoelse — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:06:57 +0000

I wanted this before GTA and im still waiting… And for GTA (YAY Amazon have it back in stock!! Waiting for pre-order to dispatch!!)

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:49:47 +0000

Import! Get DS3 *and* stick it to the man!

By: Chinster

Chinster — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:38 +0000

Cheers, that’s not a bad price at all.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:48 +0000

Here you go:
http://www.videogamesplus.ca/product_info.php?cPath=486_488&products_id=14016

£25 plus £3.50 shipping.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:18:55 +0000

Play-Asia appears to be a fan favourite, as does VideoGamesPlus. Or there’s always eBay – loads of ‘em on there.

Edit: Oh… Play-Asia say they won’t ship ‘em to Europe. I wonder how people are getting around that?

By: Chinster

Chinster — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:50 +0000

Interesting. Do you know where they are importing them from?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:09:11 +0000

If you already have PS3s then why don’t you just import one? Plenty of people on the EG forums importing them for less money than you’d pay for a European Sixaxis.

By: Chinster

Chinster — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:06:12 +0000

I’d also like one of these new fangled not as light as air models.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:38:24 +0000

I really want to get a DS3 before MGS4 hits in mid-June.

Playing MGS without vibration is unthinkable.

By: gaz

gaz — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:29:06 +0000

They have a huge amount of surplus stock of the non vibrating variety to get rid of and hope that the public will buy them up first…

By: patlike

patlike — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:21:31 +0000

I think they’re really about to announce it. I don’t know why it wasn’t announced last night, but they must have their reasons.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:33 +0000

I really don’t understand why they’re dragging their heels on announcing a date. It’s not like it’s some big secret that there’s an improved controller on the way. The continual dithering and refusal to even talk about it is just alienating the chunk of their potential consumer base which is adamantly waiting for a bundled DS3 before they’ll buy.

For my money, the DS3 is *the* PS3 sticking point. A larger HDD, the price, a return of PS2 BC – they’re all ‘nice to haves’, but the controller is non-negotiable.