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Blu-ray backed PS3 sales spike on restock

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Sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 increased Thurs. at Amazon.com upon restock of the $499 80GB SKU.
By Fri. morning, orders for the high-end model increased 3,750 percent to rank as the No. 6 best-selling item in the Video Games division.

The 80GB model, which includes an 80GB hard drive and built-in Wi-Fi, was previously out-of-stock at Amazon.com.
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mighty_douche - 667 days 10 hours ago
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"The 80GB model, which includes an 80GB hard drive and built-in Wi-Fi"

ddurrrrrr......
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Maddens Raiders - 667 days 10 hours ago
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1.1 - But did you know.... -
Top Sellers at Amazon:

300 [Blu-ray] Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's)…
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PS3…
Casino Royale [Blu-ray]…
Pirates of the Carib… [Blu-ray]..
PlayStation 3 (60GB)
PlayStation 3 80GB Motorstorm Edition…
PlayStation 3 Wireless Sixasis Controller…
Ratatouille [Blu-ray]…
Samsung BD-P1400 1080P BDP…
Sony PlayStation 3 Blu ray disc remote…
The Fifth Element (Remastered Blu-ray)…
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mighty_douche - 667 days 10 hours ago
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It's fair to say Sony are now laughing in the face of all the doubters. Give it 4 months and it'll be MGS at the top of that list!
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heyheyhey - 667 days 10 hours ago
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lol it's all Sony stuff until #8 then a brief interruption by a Samsung TV and then it's all back to Sony

Sony is definitely laughing all the way to the bank, stopping to b!tchslap some media fools along the way
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ScentlessApprentice7 - 667 days 10 hours ago
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1.4 - The Fifth Element is now on Blu-Ray?
Coool!

"Chicken....Goooood" ;
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sonarus - 667 days 9 hours ago
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wow. sony has completely turned their sh!t around. I bet MGS4 release date probably chipped in some sales. I still remember the last game trailers tv where that guy criticized sony and said there was no way they could outsell 360 ever. lol. Now the real competition is the wii.
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Silellak - 667 days 9 hours ago
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Got a source on that?

Cuz when I check the top selling in the Video Games category I get:

Top Sellers in Video Games
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1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl by Nintendo
2. Wii Nunchuk Controller by Nintendo
3. Wii Remote Controller by Nintendo of America
4. The Sims 2: FreeTime by Electronic Arts
5. PlayStation 3 80GB Motorstorm Pack by Sony Computer Entertainment
6. Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote by Sony Computer Entertainment
7. Wii by Nintendo
8. Wii Play with Wii Remote by Nintendo
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (XBox 360) by Activision
10. PlayStation 3 Wireless Sixaxis Controller by Sony Computer Entertainment
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ruibing - 667 days 9 hours ago
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It's funny seeing how 360 Arcade has been in stock all this time, but its ranked #157 while the 40GB has been around #10 for the past few weeks. At least people know a better deal when they see it.
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Maddens Raiders - 667 days 9 hours ago
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there ya go. (For some reason N4G won't upload my screen capture), but it's there on the site, just like I laid out.
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Silellak - 667 days 8 hours ago
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Still not seeing it anywhere. Can you explain to us where exactly on the site it is?

I'm also pretty sure that CoD4 for the PS3 can't be #3 on any Top Sellers list if the 360 version is #9 for JUST Video Games and the PS3 version isn't on the Top Selling Video Games category at all.
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cokzilla23 - 667 days 8 hours ago
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either list you wanna look at, it still shows how more and more ps3 stuff is starting to make the list. not too long they only had 1 item. times sure have changed since 07!
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travelguy2k - 667 days 10 hours ago
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2 - I'm not a math wiz but...
"...orders for the high-end model increased 3,750 percent..."

"...The 80GB model...was previously out-of-stock at Amazon.com...."

Since it was sold out before, what kind of increase does this really mean?

Example: last week number sold 0, this week number sold 7 well thats a 3,750 increase i think.

Its impossible to quantify an increase percentage when what you are comparing to was 0.

Although this is great news regardless. I am also surprised about 6axis controlers being so high on the list as they have a release date for the dual shock 3 now.
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SmokeyMcBear - 667 days 10 hours ago
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its not sales.. its sales rank.. an edumacation is a good thing
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ScentlessApprentice7 - 667 days 10 hours ago
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2.2 - Get it? A 3750% increase in sales RANK! not sales numbers.
I just hope Jack Thompson or Nut Cracker Clinton don't use instances like this one as evidence of videogames dumbing down America's populous.
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ruibing - 667 days 10 hours ago
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It's already OOS. I hope Sony get some more 80GB SKUs (no matter the form) to the states soon, they are missing on some major potential sales for this month for North America.
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gtgcoolkid - 667 days 10 hours ago
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3 - Well its still up there
Can you just imagine when the Metal Gear Pack is released in June. Awesomeness.
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mighty_douche - 667 days 10 hours ago
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Amazon goes KABLAMOOO!?!!?

I predict nudity...
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Odion - 667 days 10 hours ago
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Amazon news again? God damit it thought we finished with this last July
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Tempist - 667 days 10 hours ago
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5 - 11 Mil. by March 31st?
Apparently the Jan 1st 2008 numbers put the PS3 @ 10.49 Million for FY 2007.

And we laughed at that 11 Million goal. Doesn't matter how you split it; sold for games or sold for a Blu-ray player; it's still bottom line sold.

Anyone know what the Wii or 360 target number where for year end?
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eagle21 - 667 days 10 hours ago
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6 - I tried to tell everyone last night, but this is amazing!
The demand is way up in North america now. It's so on. You can't stop Sony when they heat up. Nobody EVER HAS OR WILL! Best Buy is doing what gamestops TRIED to do with 360, Promoting PS3!!...but I can see HUGE leatherette Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns's of The Patriot's banners going up at Best Buy's late spring when MGS4 comes out! They had banners last Christmas in my area. My friend bought one last night, and they are currently SOLD OUT, but still number 5. Like the Wii, if the console is hot, it will stay in the TOP SOLD OUT on amazon. Not In stock on the bottom...wink,wink.lol
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SIX - 667 days 9 hours ago
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Yup. I've noticed that too. Same time last year everyone of my buddies was making fun of me for wasting my money. It's all good :)
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vloeistof - 667 days 10 hours ago
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thats goood
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RH06 - 667 days 9 hours ago
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8 - Lovin every minute of it...
still love my launch 60gb with a installed 250 internal sata, gotta love the unrestricted Hdd use...MS can kiss my a$$, by the way MS ur Vista sucks in terms of program reliability...sounds like my 360...
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Tempist - 667 days 9 hours ago
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Please take this to the Open Zone.
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killer_trap - 667 days 8 hours ago
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i honestly never doubted sony's ability to turn things around, they had so many things going for them that were only ahead of their time. but now the time is right and things couldn't look any better for sony.

we all said 2008 will be sony's year and they already proved it 2 month in. WOW
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Maddens Raiders - 667 days 8 hours ago
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Just click on the Punch JumP article and look at the advertisement on the right hand side. It clearly states what the top sellers at Amazon are. I think you're looking for a "...and the winner is....." type rundown when this is not what was being purported. What the fact is and what the Amazon Advertisement states is what the best sellers are at their store, which I outlined in my earlier comment.
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Warbletot - 667 days 7 hours ago
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11 - I have two PS3's...
I don't wish to gloat, but when I purchased my Sony Bravia 1080P TV, I could not contemplate not having a Blu-Ray device to go with it, and I did not want to lose my gaming PS3 in my bunker(private hideaway).
The PS3 is so versatile that it made absolutely no sense to purchase anything else but a PS3 for the new T.V in the living room.
I knew the PS3 was excellent on my benq for gaming, but on a big 1080P.....Blu-Ray movies are stunning, viewing photo's and home movies are fantastic, music with visualizers(80GB ipod may be on ebay soon), and may I say how cool it is to slouch on the couch and access the Internet on a big screen!
People this year are starting to come around to just how good the PS3 really is, most of us that owned one last year already knew this and probably did not understand the negative press of last year. How things change.

Just a final note, please do not reply with talk of attach rate, I do not care for such an argument. I do know that one PS3 is going to be attached to lots of Blu-ray movies, and the other will have lots of games ;)
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Mc187 - 667 days 7 hours ago
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12 - Well
We've all been saying this for a long time.
The PS3 fn ROCKS nuff said.
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solidworm - 666 days 15 hours ago
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s**t,s**t,s**t, wish id remembered the names of all those gimps who jumped on the anti sony flamebait wagon from day 1. They must be crapping themselves now
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resistance100 - 666 days 15 hours ago
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I see they are sold out again.
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