Xmas entertainment
After looking a lot around Tokyo, I managed to get a Sony PS3. I was actually undecided between a PS3 and a Wii. I wanted a PS3 to get a BluRay player and for the games but I was intrigued by the new Wii remote (check out this web site for some funny troubles with it) and the reviews about the new Nintendo console. Both were sold out every where in Tokyo (as it is the Nintendo DS Light here which is not sold out at all in Europe) but a bit of searching around Akihabara (all those years wandering around there have finally paid off) got me to a shop where they had few PS3 and I got two, one for me and one for Fujimoto-san, one of my friends here who was also desperately looking for a new console for this vacations. 
So far, the impression is good, a very solid machine with spectacular graphics even though the games I have seen so far are just improved versions of games that existed, we certainly need to wait a bit till new games that exploit all the new power of the PS3 come out. As for the BluRay player, I got a movie to check it out and the quality is pretty good although in spite of supporting H.264 it is recorded in MPEG2 at 15Mbps (why???). My TV back in Spain has a higher resolution than the one I have here in Tokyo (1080p versus 720i) so the final test will come when I take it back there and check it with a larger TV. Finally, a word of advice, get yourself a TV with a HDMI connection, it makes a great difference compared with using a regular RCA connection and there is no point having a PS3 and a BluRay disc unless you have a TV that matches those specs and you can connect them properly.
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