PLAYSTATION 3

As the world played PlayStation 3 late in 2006, we in PAL territories had to sit back, watch, and wait patiently for four months before Sony’s new console came to these shores. It was agony.

In America Sony cut the US launch allocation in half to 200,000, unthinkable at the time. Amid fears the UK release date could even be delayed until September the following year, a source at Sony told OPM, “We’re still committed to a March release for the UK and Europe.” All our sacrifices to the game gods paid off as PS3 was finally released on 23