Photos: The PS3 arrives in Europe at last

The launch of the Playstation 3 may be last year's news in the U.S. and Japan, but the Sony game console is only now arriving in Europe. Here, very early on Friday, Bastian Schewiola hoists a box containing the long-awaited machine at the Sony Center in Berlin, where the PS3 went on sale at a midnight launch. As in the U.S, many midnight buyers were planning to spend the whole weekend putting the PS3 through its paces.

To see stories, reviews, photo galleries and video from the U.S. launches of the PS3 and Wii, click here: "PS3 and Wii create a new playing field"