PlayStation 3 Ships

You thought e-mail was addictive, but The New York Times reports 3-day lines forming on Madison Avenue outside Sony Plaza for the release of Sony's brand new PlayStation 3. The fresh machine retails for $599, but the going price on eBay is -- give or take -- $2,100. (The difference could pay a few months rent...in Queens, circa 1992.)

Scoble reports longer lines in San Francisco than for the xBox event in recent memory.

Sony PlayStation has about 60 percent of the console market today. Yankee Group projects Sony to give up share to xBox by 2011, but that's a paid guess by my reckoning. Sony gaming czar, Kaz Hirai, was smart enough to praise the study (Gamespot).