Almost 90,000 PS3’s have been sold in Japan

Of course, 88,400 isn’t all that bad considering that it falls right in the middle of the 100,000 units sold Sony was shooting for and the 80,000 units Nikkei Shimbun announced just prior to the launch.

But seeing as how you can’t pick up a console with buying a game to go with it there's bound to be at least one game that wipes the slate clean. This time, there were two and the top two selling games in Japan happened to be Ridge Racer 7 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Site which sold about 30,000 copies apiece.

The near-instant depletion of the consoles has driven up not only the amount of PS3’s you can find on Ebay, but you’ll see a huge surge in the asking price as well. You could easily just wait for the next shipment of consoles to buy one or you could fork over fifteen hundred dollars and pick one up of the net.

Also, some e-commerce importers have decided to not sell any imports to Europe or North America after Sony’s lawsuit win of the import site Lik-Sang which in turn, drove them out of business.