Thursday, October 12, 2006

Sony PS3 Auctions on eBay

Some of the Gamestop Sony PS3 reservations that have been briefly available this week are turning up on eBay.

The sellers claim that they have been first in line at GameStop or EB Games. The Buy Now price for a premium PS3 is set around between $1,500 and $2,000.

When the Xbox 360 launched prices went as high as $3,000 for a premium package on eBay.


I see currently 25 auctions for Sony PS3 premium consoles on eBay. That is still not a lot. I guess sellers still holding back. It is still early in the game.

I already wonder how many days before launch day Sony Fanboys will camp out in front of a Best Buy. The low supply will despite the high price generate a tremendous shortage and disappointment for many Sony fans.

@ 11:11 PM

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Suggested retail price by region*
Region Expected pricing at release
Basic Premium
Japan Japan JP¥49,980 Open price
United States United States US$499 US$599
Canada Canada C$549 C$659
Mexico Mexico MXN$7,999 MXN$9,499
European Union Eurozone
(excluding Finland)		 €499 €599
United Kingdom United Kingdom GB£375† GB£425†
Switzerland Switzerland
 CHF 749 CHF 899
Norway Norway
-
 5000 NOK†
Denmark Denmark 4295 DKK† 5495 DKK†
Sweden Sweden
-
 5999 SEK†
Finland Finland €550 €650
Australia Australia A$829 A$999
New Zealand New Zealand NZ$999†
 NZ$1199.95†
The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("SIT"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independantly. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPE's and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512KB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each of the SPEs is a RISC processor with 128 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256KB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS[38]. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 218 GFLOPS single precision float and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.