Stop with the psuedo-trolling Avin. Sales are certainly up a lot. Two weeks ago there wasn't a store in the nation that was sold out of PS3s, that makes this a big deal considering most of the stores that have sold out had noticably large stockpiles of the machine.

We should just wait until NPD's numbers to see what kind of affect the price drop had.

It was expected that sales boost from a pricedrop. Now people who have waited them to drop to 500 are rushing to buy it. Also people who want the version with EE, are rushing to buy it. Sales go back down before august.
We will propably see similar boost with the next pricedrop.

That's just the reason why I want to get mine now, I do want the EE in the PS3 I buy.   I've talked to a few buddies this morning who have been waiting for the PS3 to drop or some good games to come out they like and all 4 of them went and bought one yesterday.

 And for the trolls, I asked you nicely to keep out of this thread. Just because you dislike Sony doesn't mean that you can't be a productive poster in a topic like this and have to say negative things.   Sure, we will see numbers spike, but what will the sustained sales end up being after the price drop has been in effect for a few weeks? I'm sure it will be more then 10% increase over prior sales.

Are you talking more about what you have seen prior to the price drop? Because that is what it sounds like to me.  If you don't have exact numbers I am not sure how you could give an accurate gauge of sales since the price drop in comparison to prior to the sales drop.  Please be constructive with your comments and not negative on the PS3.  Keep in mind that the better all the systems do, we as video game enthusiasts win.

According to Amazon.com the sales of the PS3 has risen with... hold yourself tight to anything steady because else you're going to faint:

2700%!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_mte/002-2157765-4044038

 However, the first item in the list is:

http://www.amazon.com/Splitfish-PS3-fragfx108w-fragFX-for-Playstation/dp/B000S14FNO/ref=pd_ms_vg_1/105-0689621-8213210?ie=UTF8&s=videogames 

fragFX for Playstation 3

That one rose 40,875%, So I'm not giving that 2700% increase too much credit until some real world numbers are released ;)

Stores can simpy refuse to sell PS3's or any console for that matter if it's going to be hurting them in the long run.

I find it pathetic that anyone can think sales will double because of a $100 price drop, you think that the extra 100% of sales is coming from people that were holding out because they didn't have a spare $100 on em?

If someone would pay $499 about 75% of them would pay $599 if that were the only option.

Hence I predict a 25% sales increase for the month.

Amazon is not a reliable indication of sales, Wii is almost always beating DS but you never see that on the charts.

Here is the reason for so many PS3s being sold at Amazon:

http://amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5139302_1/105-0689621-8213210?ie=UTF8&docId=1000106451&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=05RTCMPB68SM7F0EBHRQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=298102301&pf_rd_i=507846

They offer a PS3 remote control for Blu-Ray movies, a copy of the movie memento, and the 5 Blu-Ray movies promotion is still valid...

Now Blu-Ray "sales" are going to take off! HD-DVD prepare to get "crushed"...