So...

On Wednesday this week I pre-ordered a PS3 from the EB in the city. The good EB in the city. Not the one in the Myer Center. It only cost me $50 to pre-order but I will most likely put the other $950 in before the launch so on launch day I can just pick one up.

I also heard that less that 10,000 units are coming to Australia for launch, that is not a very happy number. I don't know the sales figures for the 360 though, so I am not sure how many people are going to want the $1000 PS3 at launch.

Oh well, I pre-ordered over 3 months in advance but saying that, I have been meaning too for about 6 months now. The only problem was that stores would not commit to a midnight launch, which I really need as I cant really pick one up at 9am on the Friday morning.

However after talking to the guy at EB who said that although he couldn't confirm a midnight launch (While his creepy manager watched him over her shoulder), they had opened for every hardware launch in the past including the Gamecube and that they would open for PS3 if the interest was high enough. When I asked him if they seriously thought that it wouldn't be, he said under his breath that it was pretty stupid (while his manager eyed him closely). Anyway, with any luck I will have my new supercomputer on November the 17th.