On launch day PS3 smashed into pieces in the US

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:44

Your IT - Entertainment

As predicted and as expected, the people who created the SmashmyiPod site have purchased a PS3 and smashed it into pieces. Want to see the video?

First it was the iPod, then an Xbox 360. A PSP has also been smashed into pieces, and now, on launch day, to the horror of PS3 owners-to-be waiting in lines across the country, a PS3 has been smashed into bits in front of a Best Buy crowd.

Here’s where you can visit the SmashmyPS3 website, which links to this video showing you all of the action.

You’ll see a PS3 being taken out of its box, held aloft for all in the Best Buy line to see, with camera crews standing by and people with the digital cameras at the ready to take photos, and then the PS3 is dropped to the ground with a thud.

Next up is a tall guy with a massive sledgehammer, and he starts whacking the PS3 harder and harder. After that he jumps on it and then he smashes it some more for good measure.

Bits of shiny black plastic are flying everywhere. Then the camera comes and takes a close look at the PS3, which has its innards exposed and clearly badly damaged.

We see crowd shots with bemused people in the lines, and then there’s some commentary as well. The whole thing is finished in two minutes and 51 seconds.

Hours and hours of waiting in the line, but you too can smash your PS3 in less than a minute.
It seems such a shame... but plenty of donors to the SmashmyPS3 website thought otherwise and have paid good money to keep the luddites and the Unabomber happy.

Only in America, as they say! What next, the SmashmyWii website and video too? :-)

UPDATE: We've been contacted by the SmashmyPS3 people, and they kindly pointed out that the PS3 smashing took place in Toronto, Canada (not the US, but still in 'North America' haha :-) and that yes, SmashmyWii is definitely next!