GameStop and EB Games stores already sold out their first batch of Sony PS3 consoles they had available for pre-order mid-day yesterday.

Apparently GameStop still plans an online PS3 pre-order soon. This will be you next chance to secure a Sony PS3.

CNET has published a story where GameStop says that most stores only had 8 Sony PS3 consoles available. Some selected stores got a whopping 16 consoles. It is really no surprise that they pre-order is already closed again. And get this employees could buy a total of 2 consoles per store, leaving 6 or 14 to customers.
Let's do a quick calculation: There are 3,600 Gamestop and EB Games stores nation-wide. Let's say 3,000 stores got 8 Playstation 3 consoles and 600 got 16. This would result in 33,600 PS3 systems are already gone from the promised 400,000 consoles Sony is supposed to ship in the U.S.

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