PS3 enjoys record breaking pre-orders in Europe

[gandley]

we english like to piss and moan, but we always put down the cash. That seems to be whats going on with the PS3, lots of boycott talk and its too expensive, yada yadda, then whoosh, preorders go thru the roof. couple of games stores i been at said PS3 preorders are indeed going high numbers now.

Amazon doses not start pre orders until Feb 15th, expect sales to be high with them as well.

It is starting to look good for PS3 and blu ray, HD-DVD seems more popular on say the AVForum types (stuborn anti sony sentiment followed by Amir poison and persuasion), but i think more are seeing the need to be format neutral, but with BD cranking releases of quality and status, i think HD-DVD will take a back seat and is on a slippery slope. IMHO, HD-DVDs last hope is to get those cheap and nasty chinese players out to J6P NOW.

As of march 23rd, chalk another one up for the BDA..

By the way i own both formats, and was a HD-DVD only supporter.