The European launch of the ‘most eagerly anticipated console of all time‘

Sony have finally managed to locate Europe on the map and announced that we’ll be getting a slice of the PS3 pie. Everyone knows that my opinion of the machine (and Sonys arrogance) dwindles by the day, but I’ll be interested to see what exactly happens on that fateful day.

It’s stated that 1 million units will be available to purchase EU-wide. with around 1 quarter of that coming to us Brits.

250,000 machines. That’s woefully low for a console launch, people can only but hope Sony will be shipping the things on a constant basis to finally get their hands on what they want.

However, as everyone knows by now, console launches tend not (…)

With the Wii hysteria starting to settle down and a lack of new releases, curious Wii owners are starting to focus their attention on discovering the delights that the Gamecube backwards compatibility can offer them. The problem is, as we all know, the Gamecube in the UK never faired too well towards the end of its life. In the end, most high street shops removed the machine and software from their catalogue.

This meant that prior to the Wii, the gamecube developed a hefty second hand market, you could pick up the machine for £35 and quite a few games for next to nothing, with only a trickle of new releases to purchase from Internet retailers. The Gamecube lost its (…)

Okay so it’s pretty obvious this blog has been suffering from a lack of updates and it’s this to which I apologise. A lot has happened in a month (or there abouts) and I’ll drop the usual excuse of being too busy to think of blogging. Don’t fear though, I have returned to resume normal service.

So, what exactly have I been doing over the Christmas period and beyond? To be entirely honest, not a lot, most of it was just spent consuming alcohol or eating, as you always do. Other then that, my Wii has been a slice of briliiance, you know Nintendo have got it right when you get home from the pub to find your family playing Wii Sports.

Since then I’ve moved back (…)