Monday 19 March 2007
Is it only two years since Sony revealed PlayStation 3 to a rabidly optimistic public? If, lಞike us, you're wondering why it feels a whole lot 🧜longer than that, then the answer is simple: So very much has happened.

Unlike 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft, who achieved the impressive feat of quietly researching, manufacturing and then launching a mega-powerful console almost simultaneously around the world, Sony has ducked, weaved, disappointed and, eventually, amazed almost on a week-by-week basis. By rights, Sony's public mouthpieces, Phil Harrison, Kaz Hirai and ♏Ken Kutaragi, should be weary like geriatric racehorses by now.

So, as PS3 finally crests the horizon and Sony welಌcomes Europe to a party that started four months ago, we've taken a look at the 🧜action leading up to the console's launch.

May 2005
As the penultimate E3 (although 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we didn't know that yet) geared up, s🃏ever💙al sprouted up around Los Angeles, urging readers to 'Welcome chang3'.

Just days later, PlayStation 3's took place, spiking wonders like , , and (later Resistance: Fall of Man) into our retinas. Was the footage real? Sony said yes, forumites said no... we ju♔st stared longingly at the pre🍨tty pictures.

We'd hardly recovered before Konami took the stage and the absurdly exciting emerged, accompanied by a typically crazy movie poking fun at itself and everything else. But, while we fawned over the games and the internet frothed at the mouth ove🌃r the boomerang-style controller, Kutaragi went all peculiar and tried to convince us .