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UK to get PS3 vending machines
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 4th November 2008
Sony and Universal have announced plans to team up and bring PS3 vending machines to the UK.
According to Universal and Sony, the vending machines will be an important step in their distribution plans for PlayStation 3 games, Blu-ray movies and digital music.
The vending machine in question is set to be pretty snazzy and state of the art judging by the descriptions, though we haven't yet seen one for ourselves. The machine will apparently have a full touch-screen interface and different slots for different types of flash media. As well as offering PlayStation 3 games and Blu-ray movies the machines will offer digital music downloads that users can transfer to the media of their choosing.
As well as accepting cash payments, the vending machine will also accept credit cards for those larger purchases.
Currently Sony and Universal haven't announced plans to introduce the machine anywhere outside the UK, but the expectation is that Sony is ready to roll out more units should the first lot be successful.
Would you buy your movies and music from a vending machine like this, or would you rather search for deals online? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Comments (27)
*sigh* who honestly cares?
To use marketing speak, people enjoy the "shopping expierence" too much when buying games/movie/music, for this to work.
Most people may know exactly what they want when going into a shop, but that dosent stop them looking around and browsing through everything else on offer, just in case there's something that changes their mind or there's something extra.
USB flash drives work with the PS3. :)
thats what you get for your 10th purchase, it's how they plan to stop theft as for the chavs in the area it will be closest they ever get to a female.:D
j/k
Actually, vending machines like these have been around for years and years in Japan.
When I was there in 1995, I saw vending machines that sold virtually everything, from electronics to alcohol to soiled girls' knickers, etc.
However, they have a different cultural attitude when it comes to theft, etc. As people here have already stated, i couldnt imagine one lasting the nite; the teenage scum would destroy them and loot them. :/
There's a section for games, but there's none available.
I would NEVER use it.
However if a 3rd party did this, had a huge network of vending machines and you could pick up items you ordered from the likes of play/amazon/HMV/Zavvi/whatever... after buying online at the normal online prices. This would be the greatest invention of all time.
That said, It reminds me of video rental vending machines I saw years ago up here - feed it cash, pick the tape, and go home.
http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/1088_1_230.jpeg
I wouldn't mind using this.
Especial this time of the year the crime rate is high because every one needs money for santa...
I'm not sure I wouldn't pay a small premium to get a product I had already decided on right now without dealing with some incompetent teenaged sales monkey.