It's probably selling nothing. Same in Malta, the Xbox 360 ain't discontinued but it's not available at any major retail store. New Xbox 360 games are still available though.

I always wanted the PS3 to hit that sweet spot of $100 to see what happens but I am not we'll see that.

I feel as though North America, Japan, and most of Europe will have PS3 for at least a couple more years before being completely discontinued

Big markets like Germany or France will still sell PS3 consoles the next years.
New Zealand is not a big market.

It'll be discontinued in smaller regions for sure, but it probably has another 2 years or so in the big markets.

It starts out being discontinued in rich small countries then rich big countries and lastly poor countries.

So this is no surprise.

What model ps3 do you have? Most problems can usually be solved fairly easily. 

I hope they continue support of the ps3 for many more years. Out of around 30 consoles owned it my favorite.

Well there's no point in buying PS3 anymore since most exclusives have come to PS4 so I wouldn't be surprised if Sony decide to pull off the plug very soon.

If they can lower retail price to $150, there is a huge market they can make on developing countries. But since games would be mostly used or cheap, they would have to make a profit on the console sales, so at $150 retail, they would have to cost $120.

If they can't reach these price points might be interesting to discontinue.

i have the slim console (not the super slim but the one before it). and its not reading the disks properly i need to literally take the console and move it arround until it actually starts reading the disk.