It MIGHT not be a failed launch, but it was fucking funny...

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http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

Japanese businessmen paid poor chinese people to wait in line to pick up the PS3's that they would later auction.

Of course, they did not buy a game once they were handed a PS3.

And yes, the very first person to buy a PS3 was chinese and didn't agree to an interview because he didn't speak a word of Japanese.