Sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 increased this week at Amazon.com amid the launch of the new interactive thriller Heavy Rain.

On Mon., the PS3 250GB SKU held a sales increase of 160 percent to rank No. 5 in Amazon's Video Games division.

Heavy Rain ranked at No. 1 top-selling product in the same period.

Heavy Rain, released Feb. 23, is an interactive thriller that will include four characters and a wealth of choices that determine the fate of each.

It holds a pre-sale price of $54.96.

Sony in Feb. said sales for the PS3 hardware increased in the third quarter due to price cut initiatives.

In the third quarter, Sony sold 6.5 million PS3 units, up from 4.5 million units one year prior.

The Networked Products and Services division, which includes the Playstation business, held a 1.9 percent increase in profit to 606 billion yen.

PS3 software sales increased to 47.6 million units, up from 40.8 million.

The PS3 has sold 33.5 million units to date worldwide.

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man wonder where the 120gb ended up

But isn't it sold out or something?

anyway the first person to use a baby seal joke is a rotten egg!

In Japan.  Just as MAG did recently, to a whopping ~14k debut.

darth there are lots of shortages in NA, and we are starting to see shortages in the UK here as well,  looks like all those PS3's got sucked into the bemuda triangle lol / jk

I really hope sales for ps3 are up this week, so many games coming and PS3 needs a big boost