PS3’s hard to find

I just wanted to buy a 120GB Playstation 3 but apparently everyone around here is sold out of them. I figured the console has been out for a few years and the 120GB version came out in I think September, so I didn’t even consider that they would be hard to come by. The Best Buy rep I talked to said he didn’t know if Sony was intentionally trying to dry out the market or what; some online news I read said they were having manufacturing difficulties.

I found the 120GB version on Toys R Us’s web site for $299 and it said it was in stock. Not trusting that to be accurate, since every other store I checked online was out of stock, and stores I called in person were sold out, I decided to call Toys R Us. I fortunately got stuck with a phone menu that you talk into instead of the kind where you hit different buttons. I say fortunately because the speak-aloud ones are easy to circumvent: just wail and squeak and squeal different inhuman noises. It frustrates the machine and causes it to say things like “I’m sorry, I didn’t get that” and eventually “Please hold while I connect you with a representative.” Score! I got a guy who checked for me and said it did indeed appear to be in their warehouse and that there shouldn’t be a delay in shipping. We’ll see. I went ahead and ordered it from their web site; $299 PS3, $13 shipping, and $18 in taxes later, my PS3 order was placed.

Games I’m looking forward to playing:

• Eternal Sonata
• Heavy Rain
• Katamari Damacy
• Dragon Age
• Heavenly Sword
• Little Big Planet

If you have any PS3 game suggestions, let me know. :) Also, has anyone else had trouble finding these things?