Playstation 3 in Tokyo

If I went to Tokyo next week and walk around a number of shops would I be able to buy a PS3 new without too much trouble?

 

Yes

 

yupp, cheap too, two weeks ago they were everywhere and the lowest i could find for a 60gig was 49000

 

20GB for 39,000 yen

state of affairs. Not that it's a big secret or anything.

EDIT: Underlined the links. God why someone doesn't take 30 seconds to fix that for the whole site is beyond me.

 

xe.com states its 320.865 Us Dollars. Damn thats a nice price

 

Yeah, not bad, but I'd rather have the big one if I was going to have one. As for yet, it would be a 50,000 (or 60,000) yen paperweight. No games I want, and very few on the horizon. I hate Ridge Racer.

 

Thank you. I am only really buying the machine as I want to play Mahjong Fight Club Online (play this far too much when I am in Japan, the smoke in the arcades is not doing my health any good) and will pick up Railfan, Motorstorm and F1.

I also want Gran Turismo HD, I will have broadband access when I am in Japan. How easy would it be to set up the PS3 and download said game?

 

as easy as setting up the ps3, downloading the game and playing it

 

Japanese 60GB PS3 @ Y49000 = £207
UK 60GB PS3 at launch = £425

Man, I hate living in the UK sometimes.

 

Yeah, but you have that great weather! Oh, and don't forget VAT!

EDIT: Sorry, I know.. .terrible.

 

Heh, so true. Nevermind, I've got my JET interview (http://www.jet-uk.org) a week tomorrow, so with any luck I'll be living in Japan from this summer.

 

Yeh and be doing a job that you don't actually do anything in. JET teachers have life sooooo easy! Still, I'd rather have a real job than be a JET. It's great for a short term thing but if you are planning on staying in Japan long term I'd find yourself a better job after a year or so.

Yakumo

 

Yeah, that's the plan at least. I see JET is my stepping stone into Japan. Get a visa, make some money, pay off my debts and brush up on my Nihongo and then hopefully find a real job the following year. If that doesn't happen, you can always sign up for another year. Perfect, really. Just hope I get it ray:

 

Hey, Jet's not a bad program. Same pay, cheap rent, someone else doing all the leg work? Doesn't sound bad to me.

 

Damn i think i may have to import one, do the ps3's have region locking on them? N yeah the UK is shit sometimes but Sheffield aint all too bad

 

No, it's region-free for PS3 games. Probably the reason Sony is going crazy on shutting down eBay UK auctions for import PS3s right now. Don't see how they're going to stop people importing them once it's launched over here though.

Well, that's at least three Sheffield residents on this board, so we must be doing something right ;-)

 

i dont know why people even import the US ps3.. its twice as expensive and you still cant play all your psx/ps2 imports on it since those games are region locked..

another nice piece of news is that the PSU in the ps3 is 110/220V so no matter where in the world you are you can just plug it straight into the mains, sweet!

 

Well in that respect it is a good deal however JET teachers (NOT ALL) don't really have such a good reputation that's to a lot of asshats that come over for a bit of Japanese pussy. I was never a JET teacher but I did work in a independent school for two years doing my best to teach something I knew sweet FA about apart from speaking it. The amount of idiots we had in that place was unbelievable. Some of them so thick that they thought "the" and "there" were the same bloody word ! One guy didn't even know what a noun, adjective, verb or adverb was

Anyway, I wish you good luck in your adventure, Phinn :thumbsup: You're doing just what I did in 1998 but with a bit more common sense :lol: I came over with no job to go to!

Yakumo

 

Yeah, from my experience, it seems most gaijin in Japan are losers (present company excepted ;-)). I feel almost obliged to go to Japan if only to make sure the Japanese know that not all foreigners are freaks and sociopaths.

Apart from all the obvious benefits to myself, I actually want to take the teaching thing seriously. I'm enrolling onto a TEFL module at my final semester here at uni and I know my English skill is up to scratch if nothing else.

I just remember how much I enjoyed French and German at school when we had the foreign language assistants in, probably helped by the fact all of them seemed to be female and gorgeous. From memory, most lessons revolved around the promise of cake.

The prospect of standing in a front of a class of thirty disinterested 15 year olds is pretty daunting I d, but with a genki can-do attitude (and cake), I hope I'll be okay.

 

Yep, agreed. I definitely don't think it's something unique to JET's. I've only known a few though. Two of my best mates were jets.