We got this link to Gamespot's Korean arm (who knew?) from a tipster. It's a six image gallery apparently of a huge pile of PlayStation 3s being boxed and placed in their retail packaging.

They appear to be the 20GB, $499 variety. In some of the pictures, a non-descript Asian man bends over to place a finished unit in the box; his jeans are curiously rolled up to his knees. It appears as if he's wrapping them up for shipping.

Not much more to extrapolate, without knowing Korean? Any multilingual Asiatics able to help us out with a translation? Florian Eckhardt

PlayStation 3 Packaging at TGS06 [Gamespot.kr]

Edit: Interesting email from a reader, perhaps shedding more light on the pics:

Just a heads up, but those photos seem to be from the Sony booth at TGS. They're setting up the PS3 demo pods there. The retail boxes are probably empty, for display only, since the guy seems to be taking a 60GB PS3 out of a non-descript brown box, to place in the demo pod.

Seems plausible! Thanks, John D!

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