Been today at Mediaworld, no more plain PS3, only bundles left, the largest was the singstar one.
XB360, only Arcade bundles at 159€.
Wii, didn't see the current price, they were refilling the shelves.
As I imagined, a lot of Balance Board on the shelves, they were shown even before the consoles, first console related HW item a buyer will see entering the store.

I did, and promptly remembered that I can't read Italian. English, German and Spanish yes, but Italian sadly no.

Lol , i wonder how the PS3 Would Sell at $200 Worldwide

The article in the link quotes Sony which writes about "MediaMarket". I'm sure this is the large chain that operates under "MediaMarkt" (also Saturn) in other countries. As I have written in another thread, every MediaMarkt pretty much operates on its own rules, every MediaMarkt can set prices whichever way suits best (under corporate quidelines). So this is one MediaMarkt head honcho that thought (for whatever reason) it a good idea to make this deal in his shop (happened in November here too, one palette of PS3s only though). The next MediaMarkt, even if it were 100 ft away from this one, would not have this deal.

Duh.. I think there is a movie called "The Walmartization of America" or something similar that shows the effect of what happens to a town when a 3000lb Gorilla takes over and ruins all the small shops by undercutting prices until they are bancrupt. In Europe, we (used to?) have product price bindings  which (were?) are intended to protect the small guy from being driven out of business by ruinous prices from said gorilla. So Sony (or any manufacturer still holding to those rules) will try to prevent any such large scale sales.

Hey hey...thats not fair.

Only Sony is allowed to sell PS3s at a loss... :D

Pretty sure they are concerned about this spreading. It all starts somewhere, however small.

correct me if im wrong but isnt that like $414.00 US dollars????

Yes, MediaMarket is strictly tied to Media Markt, most probably it's its Italian branch renamed because "Markt" is not an easy name for Italians.

MediaMarket controls both MediaWorld and Saturn, these are just store chains names, the company name is MediaMarket and you find only it on phone directories, with no distinction between the two chains, you must know the street name to get the right number if both chains are present in your town. They must be very confident on every other mean to be known by people and they must hate phones, as they don't even print their numbers on their leaflets.

This is EXACTLY the correct comparison. The MediaMarket group, in many countries, controls a large percentage (even a majority in some)  of all electronic thingies sold. For all practical purposes, they are WalMart of Europe (excl. GB where they don't exist).