First of Sony’s next-generation consoles presented by Ken Kutaragi himself

The Sony PlayStation 3 was launched in Tokyo over the weeked. The first unit of the next-generation console was handed over to the first lucky punter by none other than Ken Kutaragi, the Godfather of PlayStation.

However, the event was marred by fighting among the crowd and organisational skills on the part of the host shop that would make the Keystone Kops proud.

By 3am there was a crowd of several thousand people in line at Bic