The Gamers' Day event was simply lousy with Playstation 3s, they were everywhere. There were at least six up on the stage during the presentation and oodles of them packing the two floors of hands on space set up for journalists.

There were so many that I asked one of the PR peeps if I could just take one home with me. She laughed.

I was able to heft a couple in my hands, they're chunky beasts and feel all of their 11 pounds or so. They also get really hot, but not as hot, I believe, as the 360 gets during a few hours of gaming.

One of the things I really love about their design, and this is so silly, is that they have this cool touch sensative panel thingie that you use to turn the thing on and off and to eject the disc tray. You just lightly touch it and the system powers on or off. And to eject you sort of slide your finger across the eject symbol. Very cool.

Hit the jump for more shots, including one of Kaz holding up the official, but empty, PS3 box.

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