I had planned to buy a Sony PS3 some time early in the 2010, but for some reason, I had been holding off. \u00a0I stopped playing video games a few years ago, and my Nintendo Wii had been sitting in a box during two of my past four residences. (This weekend I will be moving for the 4th time in a year and a half.) So I sold my Wii to my wife’s aunt, won $100 at the office Super Bowl Squares, and decided that I would use those funds to buy a PS3–for the Blu-Ray player capabilities of course.<\/p>\n
In prior posts, I’ve mentioned how I’ve been weirdly holding off on high definition home video while I’m an HD snob for TV and sports. \u00a0Well, since we’re moving into a new house this weekend, and because I have to take off work to wait for the gas to be turned on this Friday, I figured I’d go ahead and get the PS3 and rent some Blu-Rays.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the PS3 is nowhere to be found. Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Gamestop, and Toys”R”Us are all either sold out or backordered. \u00a0When I check Amazon.com, it appears to be available, but instead of the normal $299.99, they’re selling it for $365.95.<\/p>\n
What?<\/p>\n
Why would I pay an extra $65 for something that I know should cost only $299.99? I don’t understand what’s going on. Is this simply a shortage due to the price drop when the PS3 Slim came out? I doubt it because that happened over 6 months ago. Is Sony planning a PS3 update, so they stopped supply of the PS3 Slims? Maybe, but I just<\/em> watched a PS3 presentation at the Gamer Developer Conference, and all they talked about was the new Playstation Move, motion control remote (basically a glorified Wii Remote).<\/p>\n I’ve looked all over the internet, and I see no news at to why there is a shortage. All I want to do is watch Blu-Ray movies on Friday. Should I scour the city for a PS3, or is Sony going to drop the price and release a new one in April?<\/p>\n Conundrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had planned to buy a Sony PS3 some time early in the 2010, but for some reason, I had been holding off. \u00a0I stopped playing video games a few years ago, and my Nintendo Wii had been sitting in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}