Cool, But Can It Play Red Dead Redemption?

This is the Namba (NOT NAMBLA) Parks Building in Osaka, Japan. As you can see unless hummingbirds pecked both your retinas out, it looks like a giant (first generation) Playstation 3. Coincidence? Or conspiracy? I don't care, just as long as it can play Red Dead Redemption ON THE MOON. Aaaaand I just rode my horse off a cliff into a crater. Great. Sea of Tranquility my ass, I think I just heard a spacewolf!

Visualized: PlayStation 3 is big in Japan [engadget]

Thanks to Jeremy, whose fort looks like a fitted sheet stretched across two stools. Hey -- that's impressive too.

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