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SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim has told Brisbane newspaper The Courier-Mail that "more than 10,000" people have pre-ordered the PS3. That's the first time anyone's got a number out of him regarding launch figures of any kind, and geez, it's not hard to see why.

The closest we've come to numbers on Australia's launch allocation has been a hint that it would be around 40-60,000 units. Let's be optimistic, and take the low end of that approximation. Now let's take his "over 10,000" statement as meaning "not close enough to 15,000 to call it that".

Going by that best-case scenario, you're looking at only a quarter of allocated units sold. 10,000 consoles across a population of 20 million people? Not looking too good for the Monday morning press release, Sony. Luke Plunkett

Midnight launch for PS3 [Courier-Mail]