PS3 and Wii launch! Well the PS3 launch went well, that is.... all the units were sold out quickly and ended up on eBay for a pile of cash, it will be interesting to see how much the premium on the PS3 drops when people realize there are few, if any, games to make it worth the premium yet. At least the Wii launched with Zelda.... though to less fanfare... and less of a shortage.... (not to mention less violence!)

From Magic Box (link to the right)
Japanese console hardware sales for the week of November 6 - 12

Platform	Sales	Total
DS Lite	148,174	5,625,283
PlayStation 3	81,639	81,639
PSP	19,123	1,492,596

OK, I don't think the PS3 was out for the whole week and they were in short supply, but it's still pretty cool that a handheld beat the PS3 first week... it would really be something if it's able to do that 6 months from now.

They also reported on the game sales figures for the same week... #1 to 8 were DS games selling between 100,000 and 23,00 copies. This was followed by Ridge Racer 7 for the PS3 at over 21,000 copies and Mobile Suit Gundam at a few copies less. From what I gather the Gundam game is pretty bad and Ridge Racer is pretty sweet. Nice that a RR game takes top spot at launch again... ahhh memories of the PS1....

Went on a Value Village binge recently, picked up some goofy old stuff... very fun but nothing too exciting.