Play the PS3 and Wii in London this week!

Author: Ryan Garside
Published: 27th November 2006
Comments (15) Stumble
Play the PS3 and Wii in London this week!

If you're fortunate (or is that unfortunate?) enough to live in London, an event that will be taking place at the Science Museum in a couple of days may be of some interest - an opportunity to play both the Nintendo Wii and the Playstation 3 before their UK launch.

The Game On exhibition, taking place at the Science Museum in South-West London, is dedicated to showing the developments made in the gaming industry from 1962 through to 2002. The show stopper, however, will be the two stands making an appearance on Wednesday of this week – a fully playable Playstation 3 and a fully playable Nintendo Wii.

Gaetan Lee, programmes developer at the Science Museum, said:

“Visitors will now be able to see and play all three of the platforms which will dominate the future of video gaming. The Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii will all be in Game On, plugged in and ready to play. Visitors can experience the graphics, interactivity and intensity that are to form the next stage of gaming’s technological and cultural development.”

The consoles, which are neigh on impossible to get hold of, will be available to play for the price of £8.50 (£6.50 if you can pass yourself off as a child or an old age pensioner). On top of that you'll also get to see a whole host of gaming nostalgia as the exhibition takes a trip into gaming's history.

We definitely recommend taking a look at the Game On site and, if you need directions to get to the Museum, click here.

Will you be going to the Science Museum to play the PS3 or the Wii? Let us know in the forums.
Quote K 27th November 2006, 11:56
Well, I was going to be going some time next week annnnyyyyways so that's a nice bonus :D
Quote atanum141 27th November 2006, 12:05
Looks like im gonna go and have a looksee.
I hope the exhibition is still on when i get back.
Quote mikeuk2004 27th November 2006, 12:16
id love to go but not able as too much going on right now
Quote Atomic 27th November 2006, 12:30
Remember BluePeter Badge Holders get in free to the Science Museum.

(Gotta be some people here with one!)
Quote Jokkocze 27th November 2006, 12:39
heheh.. there'll be a few wii's at dreamhack this weekend, so who needs some museum in london? :)
Quote Djpuk 27th November 2006, 13:47
Doubt I will get down this week but I really want to get down to the exhibition before it finishes early next year, people I have spoken to who have visited say it is well worth the trip.
Quote BioSniper 27th November 2006, 15:55
I have also read reports that Wii demo units are springing up at virgin megastore shops all over the country already anyway :)
Quote Neogumbercules 27th November 2006, 16:26
I kind of feel jaded. There's a PS3 and Wii display in just about every big store within 50 miles of my house.
Quote Atomic 27th November 2006, 16:31
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neogumbercules
I kind of feel jaded. There's a PS3 and Wii display in just about every big store within 50 miles of my house.
Because your in the US, us UK'ers get almost everything later that you guys.
Quote K 27th November 2006, 16:55
I've already seen the Wii in action at the Bullring. It's mint.
Quote DXR_13KE 27th November 2006, 17:47
for the first time the museum will fill up.... the consoles will break down and there will be a riot :p if someone plays with both please post here the experience.
Quote Agent_M 27th November 2006, 17:50
if its only on for a day thats lame, i was counting on them(the wii mostly) being displayed till the end of the show, guess i wont get to play on the wii till the release then
Quote Neogumbercules 27th November 2006, 23:43
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atomic
Because your in the US, us UK'ers get almost everything later that you guys.


Yeah I know. It's good to be a gamer in the US. Better, in Japan, I suppose.
Quote DXR_13KE 28th November 2006, 00:14
at least we get less buggy and volatile hardware.....:p
Quote Swafeman 29th November 2006, 17:31
i saw a ps3 with RR7 in the CEX in brum today, and how pee poor was it :p

was plugged into a tft, so no doubt it wasnt HD, but infact downscaled to normal 640x whatever it is resolution, still looked awful tho, im sure a 360 on that panel at normal res wouldnt have looked as bad!
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