[marty370]

Originally Posted by hellsing9 No problem sir. Just an update since is getting hard to edit with more info the article. PS3 is available on greymarket on China that means that is more expensive than the original retail price. So for the ones asking or saying..how come? they have no PS3?. Yes they have, they can purchase it but the ban even lifted can bring serious problems since this issue has a long history background. Also they don't have official support from Sony if they buy the system. You got the *lenovo's case* that the product was labeled as something else and that's the only way that they can sell the product..but it's not *legal*. Sony probably will make his way on fall on 2013, plus it's unclear if the ban was lifted or not..many sources i checked are crossed opinions and no official statement. I was in Shanghai and many parts of China and i can certify that this is true. You can get it everywhere, but the main reason the youth is so ****ed up is because of MMO's among other social problems. Funny tough they can't sell PS3's but each day they release a new MMO game that is 10 times more addictive than playing something on PS3.

You are correct, Sony got round the Console ban by selling PS2 as a computer as it can use linx.

Easy way round the ban would be to sell a PS3 console with other OS. Doubt that would happen as other OS is a sercuity risk.

[Jamaican191]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin China might ban a games console, but at least it doesn't send troops over to foreign countries to murder women and children <3

Yea for real man because that would be bad. Almost everything come from china

[hellsing9]

Originally Posted by marty370 You are correct, Sony got round the Console ban by selling PS2 as a computer as it can use linx. Easy way round the ban would be to sell a PS3 console with other OS. Doubt that would happen as other OS is a sercuity risk.

Maybe that's one reason also (speculation) that was no official release yet of Sony on China.
They know that Chinese guys are good for everything tech-wise.
I don't know which kind of units are being sold latelty..but if they have on the grey market a large stock of the *golden* ones = 3.55/below.

Well that can be a pain in the arse for sony.

The ban will be still there, but they have many chances to do what the hell they want labeling a product like is other thing.
Also that's a good reason for Sony to open up to a larger community on China PS3 gaming...but i doubt it. In some point i doubt they need it anyway..the *official* release.

Strange that model that will be released from a Foxconn subsidiary, tough.. “CECH-3012B :220-240VAC 50/60Hz 0.9A” and iQue is funny as hell

To quote:

iQue, Limited (simplified Chinese: 神游科技; traditional Chinese: 神遊科技; pinyin: Shényóu Kējì) is a Chinese joint venture with its founder, Wei Yen, and Nintendo. iQue also makes the iQue Player, which was the company's first product. The company manufactures and distributes official Nintendo consoles and games for the mainland Chinese market, under the iQue brand.

[fanboysarestupid]

They allow people to bring their pirated consoles to download games to it but actual authentic consoles are banned? That's some logic.

[klbarnes1]

who gives a flying f*&^

[fanboysarestupid]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin China might ban a games console, but at least it doesn't send troops over to foreign countries to murder women and children <3

Or like some other religious freaks that get all pissed off by seeing their prophet on a cartoon or whatever.

Religions shouldn't exist. They're evil.

[marty370]

Originally Posted by fanboysarestupid Or like some other religious freaks that get all pissed off by seeing their prophet on a cartoon or whatever. Religions shouldn't exist. They're evil.

Dumbass reglion preachers, enciting in hatred are the problem. Brainwashing duchebags.

[Spixe]

I think you meant contradiction, not paradox.

Chinese are good for everything tech wise? I think you mean sh*t for everything tech wise. I've lived here half my life, I buy all my tech products from America (unless I don't care about it going dead in a couple months) and have it shipped to me. Tech here is of the lowest quality imaginable, how do you think they keep it so cheap? They are good at "copying" existing tech, but like said, in an extremely low quality form, so most clones break in a short amount of time or are riddled with flaws.

Also the 20 days of "military training" isn't really training, it has nothing to do with guns, the students just go outside and walk around in marching drills, do map exercises, or really most of the time just sit down for hours in the sun while a couple guys in uniforms drink tea (no joke).

Yep, they sell PS3 everywhere here, taobao (it's like the amazon of China) and many electronics stores. Not hard to find at all. Funnily enough though, these same places will also jailbreak you're PS3 for a small fee as well, and fill up your internal HD with all the hacked games you like. They also sell legit games here too though. Although like mentioned, they are mostly all in Japanese, Korean, or English.

Just thought I'd add a pinch of detail.

[hellsing9]

Originally Posted by Spixe I think you meant contradiction, not paradox. Chinese are good for everything tech wise? I think you mean sh*t for everything tech wise. I've lived here half my life, I buy all my tech products from America (unless I don't care about it going dead in a couple months) and have it shipped to me. Tech here is of the lowest quality imaginable, how do you think they keep it so cheap? They are good at "copying" existing tech, but like said, in an extremely low quality form, so most clones break in a short amount of time or are riddled with flaws. Also the 20 days of "military training" isn't really training, it has nothing to do with guns, the students just go outside and walk around in marching drills, do map exercises, or really most of the time just sit down for hours in the sun while a couple guys in uniforms drink tea (no joke). Yep, they sell PS3 everywhere here, taobao (it's like the amazon of China) and many electronics stores. Not hard to find at all. Funnily enough though, these same places will also jailbreak you're PS3 for a small fee as well, and fill up your internal HD with all the hacked games you like. They also sell legit games here too though. Although like mentioned, they are mostly all in Japanese, Korean, or English. Just thought I'd add a pinch of detail.

1) It's a paradox, only because they are the ones behind the manufacture probably the biggest one and many other things about the system but they have a console ban on their own country so legally they can't buy the system because the gob or some stupid law states that.

Yeah you can buy it in every single corner if you want to, even Jailbreak for small fee. Happens the same in the Country im in, you can go to the local store and you ask the local owner to *Refill* your external HDD fo X quantity of money (not very expensive) also Jailbreak, etc if you want it.
And here we don't have any Console ban but that kind of laws is very similar to China one..*flexible*.

About what i said about being *tech-wise* i did not say TOP quality products, quite the contrary they generate so much demand on the market because they make copy-cats of every single top quality product.

For example here we have something called I9 that's being sold for a cheap price and is Chinese, it's a phone that on the outside it's the same as an Iphone but on the inside...well you can figure out.

They are *tech-wise* because of that, they know how to be to step ahead from the competition avoiding, breaking any kind of copyright law possible on the way.

Believe i also know what i am talking about becase i have to deal with Chinese products almost on daily basis and sometimes my eyes can't believe wtf im checking...

Long story short, that i was aiming to.

1) For ME it's a paradox, since they are the biggest manufacturer of products and in this case PS3 (electronics) and even have a foxconn with this *new* model but they can't purchase in a legal way the system because Sony never made an official release on the Country that most rely on.

2) Tech-wise = They know how to copy-cat almost anything, from cellphones to tablets, tv's, you name it. At a LOW cost and you know that if you are buying something that instead of having the name SEGA, says SENGA (im not kidding) you get what you pay for.

About military service was something to add to all of this, i know that it's not something like happens on another countries.
Maybe a silly comparision of situation from me..but meh happens.

Regards

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[fanboysarestupid]

Originally Posted by marty370 Dumbass reglion preachers, enciting in hatred are the problem. Brainwashing duchebags.

Reglion? Enciting?

Anyway, religions itself are the cause of wars, hatred, racism, brainwashing and all insanities. Don't try to defend religions.

If you believe in your "God" that's up to you.

By the way, were you calling me a 'dumbass'? At least you could've spelt your comment properly so it would've made sense.