Ah, remember the good old days when people were lined up for a whole week in some cases to purchase a fresh and new PS3? Apparently, nobody cares anymore. Sure, a lot of things could account for these pictures, such as the event not being marketed enough, coming at a bad time after people were burnt out on holiday shopping, but equally so you can make a case that people simply don't want the system. I know from personal experience that my system has been functioning more as a PS2 than a PS3 since its purchase.

From the article:

Reports have been steadily trickling in since yesterday of stockpiles of Playstation 3s found sitting around in Best Buys untouched, or hardly touched.

Best Buy announced they would be selling a bunch of the consoles starting Sunday and according to several emailers, very few people took them up on their offer. Of course this is all anecdotally, so I'm not sure how widespread it is.

What I can tell you is that the Best Buy near my house had 31 Playstation 3s sitting in a lovely wall o' consoles this morning when I swung by the store. Many, if not all of them, were the 60GB model.

Read the full article over at kotaku.com