Sony’s first sanctioned (as in, not privately imported) PlayStation products in the country went on sale on Saturday morning, with the120GB PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable (the PSP-3000) and PlayStation 2 all hitting the market for the first time.
The PlayStation 3 is priced at VND9.99 million ($585), the PS2 at VND4.49 million ($292), while the PlayStation Portble will be retailing for VND5.99 million ($350).
The software available is a mixed bag, some of it only in English, others in English and Chinese. Some of the games available on Saturday included Uncharted 2, LittleBigPlanet and, for the PSP, Ridge Racer 2 and Tekken Dark Resurrection.
jim
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:59 PMyeah heaps of vietnamese can afford that, not!
Cameron
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 12:07 AMHa, just got back from Vietnam about a month ago, they actually have some places that charge just to play the imported PS3′s and lots of arcades have PS2′s where you pay to use it for a few minutes. See the poverty level makes me wonder how many people could actually afford them though…
chuckie
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 12:28 AMnow they have to wait as long as we did for the respective price drops XD
thyco
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 1:05 AMI dont know the economical situtation in Vietnam, but near $300 for a 5-6year old machine seems way overpriced.
Dominic Bui
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 11:37 AMmsot people over there dont even make close to 100,000 dong a day (approx 5.8/6 aus dollars currently), what makes sony think that it would really sell over there?
most psp and ps2 are hand me downs from family overseas.
MAO
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 12:15 PMIn addition to having no money, Vietnamese prefer to play online games like MMORPGs. There’s internet cafe’s everywhere these days and all they play is online games.
Calvin Bui
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 1:34 PMLOL i went there like 6 years ago and they had the XBOX and PS2 on sale, however like for 10mil each. Yeah they have places which charge for how long you play a PS2/PC. It’s the cheapest way anyone there is actually getting close to a console. That’s good business,
kaiden
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 3:28 PMnot only is it overpriced, some games come with chinese… yeah.