The console in action
Sony's long-awaited PlayStation 3 console goes on sale in Japan on 11 November.
Hardcore fans of the game-playing gadget are already queuing outside stores for their chance to snap one of the 100,000 Sony has made available.

The PlayStation 3 is the second of the next-generation consoles to launch and comes more than a year after Microsoft's Xbox 360.

The launch is widely seen as a huge gamble for the electronics giant.


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