# PS3 UK Release Surprise
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 24, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405 "2007-03-24T06:47:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/1 "2007-03-24T06:47:10Z")
> **[PS3 finally hits UK shelves](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps3-finally-hits-uk-shelves/1100-6167940/)**
>
> Sony sweetens the official launch event by dishing out HDTVs to everybody who queued up for the new console at midnight.
-Release party was at Virgin’s flagship store on Oxford Street, London
-Only About 120 people were there in queue at midnight
-they all received a free copy of Resistance Fall of Man
and for the big surprise
“Just minutes before the tills were due to start ringing, a Sony representative made the shock announcement that everybody registered in the queue would receive a free Bravia 46” HDTV, something which took some time to sink in with the gobsmacked crowd."
Sony did not give us shit with the US release except for a bumper sticker and the pleasure of being in a line outside for almost 40 hrs
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/2 "2007-03-24T07:16:04Z")
what? free bravia???
i wouldve waited days if u got a free tv
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/3 "2007-03-24T07:21:37Z")
:tup: to sony. that was nice of them
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/4 "2007-03-24T08:00:34Z")
even if it is the lowest quality of their 46 inch Bravia LCD TVs that would cost a consumer $2499, from the sony site… :jawdrop:
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### Author:  [@nappy1380](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nappy1380)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/5 "2007-03-24T08:02:40Z")
sony didn’t give the US market anything because every other person would have sold it on EBAY with the system they just purchased.
I personally don’t use sony anyway, this just makes me hate them more
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/6 "2007-03-24T08:02:59Z")
[quote=“boardjnky4,post:2,topic:26405"”]
what? free bravia???
i wouldve waited days if u got a free tv
[/quote]
which is why they didnt do this here. You prolly would’ve ebayed it.
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### Author:  [@Twizted](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Twizted)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/7 "2007-03-24T08:36:04Z")
i got a free Dvd with my Ps3 purchase…not a TV but @ least it was something
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### Author:  [@SilverGTP](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SilverGTP)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/8 "2007-03-24T09:35:24Z")
hahahahahahaa MS rules
[http://www.xboxic.com/news/2630](http://www.xboxic.com/news/2630)
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/9 "2007-03-24T09:49:13Z")
If my Xbox 360 loved me the piece of shit wouldn’t have broken after 2 months. :bloated:
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### Author:  [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/10 "2007-03-24T10:00:00Z")
[www.shkyw.org](http://www.shkyw.org)
LOL
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### Author:  [@SilverGTP](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SilverGTP)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/11 "2007-03-24T10:03:22Z")
[quote=“JaysGreenLX,post:9,topic:26405"”]
If my Xbox 360 loved me the piece of shit wouldn’t have broken after 2 months. :bloated:
[/quote]
word my broke twice
But MS replacing them for free :tup:
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-uk-release-surprise/26405/12 "2007-03-24T15:48:17Z")
Wow, that is pretty impressive. Might generate some positive PR in the European areas.