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Slideshow: PlayStation 3 Has Landed

Sony launches its high-powered new game console in North America, but offers little hope that supply will catch up to demand any time soon. By Chris Kohler. More coverage from the Game|Life blog.
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At eight o'clock, four hours before launch, a giant trailer truck pulled up alongside the Metreon filled with PlayStation 3 units.Photo: Chris Kohler

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Chris Toribio, foreground, holds up his newly-purchased PlayStation 3 as Sony vice president Jack Tretton looks on.Photo: Chris Kohler

Sony employees move boxes of PlayStation 3 units from the truck to the PlayStation store inside the Metreon.Photo: Chris Kohler

Mike Henriquez was seventh in line, but received a surprise gift from Sony just hours before launch — a coupon redeemable for one free PlayStation 3. He took them up on their offer.Photo: Chris Kohler

![](https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/news/images/full/ps3launch6_f.jpg” class=”size-text-column-width wp-image” />Photo: Chris Kohler<br>

<ul class=) <img seven hundred gamers were lined up around Sony’s Metreon building in downtown San Francisco, waiting for PlayStation 3. Some had been there since Wednesday.Photo: Daniel Dumas <br>

c friends were first in line. L-R: Josh Motta, 19; Preston Lee, 20; Edgar Alcala, 18; Chris Toribio, 21.Photo: Chris Kohler