{"id":1751,"date":"2006-12-01T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T02:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/ps3\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T02:57:02","slug":"ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/ps3\/","title":{"rendered":"ps3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the longest time I wrote that the PS3 would be doomed. Then, apparently unimpressed, it shipped anyway. There they were the stories about long lines at the stores. People getting thousands of dollars for the console on eBay. Just this very moment a PS3 sold for 820 + 55 shipping on ebay. Unoppened. Of course. Retail is 599. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=11910\"> EA hints<\/a> that 200K PS3s have been shipped. Ebay is pretty brutal. Demand and supply. EA also claimed that around 20,000 PS3 have gone through the eBay mill. 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