Well, I decided to peek at the CC's in my area and now 3 of the 4 stores are sold out of PS3's. Apparently the deal for the free controller is spurring sales considerably in this area. Including myself, 6 people I know have purchased a PS3 this week. The few left are those who are in no way a hardcore gamer and will just wait for it to drop in price some more before they pick one up.

I was at circuit city today.. overheard a guy asking for a ps3 and the clerk told him they were sold out.... either they had very low stock or the 60gb price reduction is making a difference

people flock to circuit city because of their free wireless controller deal.  stock is everywhere at target, gamestop, walmart, etc.  and due to the slow sales earlier, it would be silly that circuit city use up all their storage space for ps3 when they have much hotter things like televisions, pc's, digital cameras, and games, just to name a few.

We will see next week the numbers of PS3 sales.

i'm actually more interested in the growth rate of the ps3 sales after 3 months. :)

It is sold out in stores. at least in circuit city.

Link: http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/NewsCom-51623.aspx

Come on, I understand u re happy but wait VGC sales numbers or NPD to get confirmation.

Some stores sold-out in some areas doesnt mean massive sale numbers for Sony

I tried putting 999 consoles into amazon.com.

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Unfortunately, I had 1-click ordering turned on.

Seriously though, I couldn't see how many consoles there were without actually completing the order.

ok, I noticed that there was an option to pay by check, so I selected it and apparently they had 999 consoles (and would have charged my credit card if I hadn't picked the check). I guess I'm not clear when it actually says how many they have in stock. As soon as you change the quantity?

No, the whole point of posting that was saying that one retailer is, for the most part, sold out. I never said I expect massive sales or anything. Look at my predictions for next week, I picked less than double sales.