That's pretty whacked. We can find them in my area with no problem. It was great just before and after Xmas because people that were trying to sell them on eBay ended up pulling them and returning them to the stores cause they couldn't make a profit on them. The stores freaked out cause they didn't want all that inventory(they still had ps3's sitting around unsold!!). It's pretty sad that we have a situation where if you want a PS3 you just have to look and can find one but if you want a Wii, um, good luck with that. I love the Wii, personally, and have absolutely no interest in the PS3 other than for the Tekken series of games...and I'm not spending 500-600 bucks on a game machine just for one game. Sony's biggest mistake was not making BluRay optional as MS did with HD-DVD. An add-on drive would have done wonders for keeping the price down and allowing them to compete head to head with MS. But their arrogance and stubbornness has put them in the position they're in now. They don't have a lot of good games out, they're losing exclusives, people aren't overly interested in BluRay on a game machine, and they're losing money by not selling all their inventory and because the machine costs so much to mfg in the first place. The risks that Sony took could have been mitigated by logical strategies, but, instead they botched the entire console release and tied their corporate success to a flawed strategy. Now they have to consider the possibility of reducing the price and widening the loss on each console sold just to get any kind of market share going. This is not a position I'd want my company to be in. As for BluRay movie success, it completely depends on whether they can get players out there(other than the PS3) for a decent price and keep studios tied to BluRay long enough to kill off HD-DVD. That's also a difficult position to be in. I don't think the majority of consumers are ready for either technology just yet. A lot of people don't have HDTV's currently and until they do there's no benefit to buying HD-DVD or BluRay. Can Sony afford to wait another year for either format to REALLY take off and hit mainstream? That remains to be seen...