For the PS3?

 From what I saw at BB and CC tonight, I would take a guess and say no.   I had some gift cards that I needed to use and with no games out right now that I really don't want and don't already have, i decided to pick up a couple BD movies and a PS3 remote.  

 While I was at BB, the place was pretty packed and in the 30 minutes I was wandering around the movie/video game sections of the store, I noticed something rather interesting.  BB had sold 6 PS3's while I was there.  All 40gb's.   One bought it just for BD movies and the occasional game, the rest picked up a few games and the console at the same time.    The PS3 demo machine had a line of about 3 kids standing behind it, while I noticed that nobody was on the Wii demo machine.   That's not to say that nobody wants the Wii, it's just what I noticed and decided to comment on it.    I talked to the BB rep that seemed surprisingly knowledgable on the PS3 without spreading half truths like GS's usually do.   He told me that they have been selling a great deal of the PS3's today with about 35 sold.   

I then got my stuff there and went off the CC since BB was out of the BD movie I really wanted (RE: extinction) and noticed the same thing.  Even though the store was quite dead for a Friday night, they sold 3 PS3's while I was there for 10 minutes and I overheard the kid working in that department say to another co-worker that he's just shocked at how many of the PS3's they had sold lately.   Apparently we can expect another week of pretty solid PS3 sales if what I noticed is happening all around the country and not just in my neck of the woods.  

Do you think this is how ioi got his start?

I get the feeling this is going to get ugly.

It could be? I really don't know how ioi got into following sales of consoles or when he came up with the idea to do so. Sadly I have not read his autobiography, but once ioi does come out with one, i may have to pick up the e-book version of it. ;)

No need for it to get ugly. I just stated what I saw tonight while I was out shopping. I mostly wanted to see if anyone else has been out the past couple of days and have seen the same thing.

But I did feel good in informing a couple of guys that were picking up the $80 monster cables that they can get a good quality one online for $10 that will perform as good as the overpriced one will.

I would make the obvious comment that personal observation does not necessarily apply on a wide scale but I will focus on something else ...

Why would you spend money on a movie as awful as Resident Evil: Extinction? I could understand if you were being forced to watch it by a crazed madman, but to actually choose to watch it ...

Happy, I happen to like the movies and pretty much anything that has Milla Jovovich in it. Especially if I get a glimpse of side boob or full frontal boob.

Would it make you feel better if I told you the other one I picked up was "War"? ;)

BTW, the profile 1.1 works pretty darn great in that movie and is pretty neat as well. And I really didn't spend my money on those movies, I used a gift card for it. :)

All 40gbs? Maybe the Warner announcement pushed format war fence sitters to pick up ps3s. If these were for gaming, I'd expect at least ONE 80gb to have been sold.

I was just teasing you, the first Resident Evil movie wasn't that bad ...