{"id":600,"date":"2006-11-11T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/11\/11\/chinese-fans-invade-japanese-ps3-launch\/"},"modified":"2006-11-12T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T16:02:00","slug":"chinese-fans-invade-japanese-ps3-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/11\/11\/chinese-fans-invade-japanese-ps3-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fans invade Japanese PS3 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/games\/articles\/0611\/11\/news015.html\">ITmedia<\/a>. So anyway, the CEO of Sony, Mr. Ken Kutaragi, made a surprise visit to a Bic Camera branch at Yuurakuchou to personally hand over a PS3 to the first person in line.<\/p>\n<p>The first guy in line was CHINESE. How cool is that? It&#8217;s like having a Chinese be the first guy on the moon, except lamer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/games\/articles\/0611\/11\/news015.html\"><img id=\"image599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/11_ps31.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Kutaragi\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKen and a Chinese guy<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/column\/china\/story\/0,2000055907,20310287,00.htm\">CNET Japan<\/a> was also reporting on the number of Chinese PS3 auction listings they found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taobao.com\/\">Taobao<\/a>, a Chinese auction site, and predicted yesterday that a lot of the people queuing up would be Chinese. And indeed they were. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/blog_entry\/eng\/664\/PS3+Tokyo+Launch\/\">Danny Choo<\/a> estimated that 30% of the people queuing up were foreigners. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.q-taro.com\/archives\/001456.php\">Q-Taro<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akibablog.net\/archives\/2006\/11\/37.html\">other sources<\/a> also reported that people, including homeless ones, were being paid to queue up. Imagine how many Japanese gamers walked away empty handed because of the number of Japanese PS3s being shipped to China and all over the world for 1,200 USD or so.<\/p>\n<p>Globalization bites back! :) You get cheap plastic figures and electronics, but you pay for it with PS3s!<\/p>\n<p>Not forgetting the Koreans and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akibablog.net\/archives\/2006\/11\/37_1.html\">Brits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from ITmedia. So anyway, the CEO of Sony, Mr. Ken Kutaragi, made a surprise visit to a Bic Camera branch at Yuurakuchou to personally hand over a PS3 to the first person in line. The first guy in line &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/11\/11\/chinese-fans-invade-japanese-ps3-launch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}