Sony to offer pre-paid PSN vouchers in Japan

I like it that transactions are shown in real money terms.

Works for me. Hope they bring them over here to the US pretty soon.

i LOVE the fact that its in real money. ONLY problem i have is WHY do they continue to do things like this: I mean this is a really good thing, yet they don't take the extra step to at least secure it or even "project it" to come to other territories. Sometimes Sony just pisses me off with the bassackwards crap.

its pretty stupid of sony to not of made these available at release in all territories, it shows there lack of respect for there customer.

@Blizz4l9

This is lack of respect for the customer.
http://portable.joystiq.com/2007/05/08/moore-dont-focus-on-xbox-360-failure-focus-on-repair

i agree Hardcore, but at least mechanical failures are not intentional.

also its hard to tell how many PS3's are defective when most of em are still sitting on the shelf, and my 360 has yet to have one problem in the 14 months i've owned it and out of all my friends only one had to replace theres, i remember many friends having ps2's die on them much more than defective 360's i've seen. I'll take what i've seen with my own eyes over what spreads on the internet.

Despite being a Wii owner, I salute the way you just called Wii Points bogus.

Sorry Blizz but IF you have ten friends with Xbox 360s and "only" one failed that is a 10% failure rate which is of course a huge number. You can ignore all the many people who have had problems (including a ton of game journalists) but even your own eyes should tell you that the 360 is failing too often.

On topic, yeah... the cards need to come out everywhere. Just because I know some people hate using their credit cards online.

"also its hard to tell how many PS3's are defective when most of em are still sitting on the shelf, and my 360 has yet to have one problem in the 14 months i've owned it and out of all my friends only one had to replace theres, i remember many friends having ps2's die on them much more than defective 360's i've seen. I'll take what i've seen with my own eyes over what spreads on the internet."

Stores are still ordering them so obviously stores are still selling them. Most still sitting on shelves? Yes, out of the 3+ million shipped, they sold twelve. Moron.

Incidently, as Tycho puts it, "we've all heard stories and tales spun on the mysterious ring of red but so far, we had been lucky to avoid that issue. But our luck did not hold. And you can say what you want about defect rates but when it happens to you, it might as well be 100%." As someone who is personally on his fifth 360, I can tell you the issue is real. Out of the 13 friends I have with Xbox 360s, only two haven't red ringed. One only bought his console shortly before christmas. The defect rate is high.

And, out of curiosity, how many of those dead PS2s occured within the first 14 months of the product launch? Just wondering because 360 seems much higher and in a much shorter time.

i never claimed there were no problems with the 360,my point is the internet also exaggerates all negative news of any console,and i personally seen a more ps2's with problems than i've seen with 360's.

and sheppy maybe its different were you live but here in the Attleboro MA area the ps3's just sit on the shelf and the display PS3's at the 2 local gamestops and 1 EB there PS3's aren't working 75% of the time i walk in there stores.

and i have my issues with xbox as well just not hardware wise my main gripe with them is there unwillingness to transfer licenses of arcade titles and such to other systems if yours does die or if you want to upgrade to an elite which in my opinion is completely unreasonable.

I have seen zero PS2 failures among my group of friends. My own personal slim PS2 has been going on without failure whatsoever, and that includes me transporting it in my bag on an almost weekly basis to my girlfriends home 200 miles away.

What is that about internet exaggerations?