With negative press on Sony and its PS3 reaching epic proportions, the feelgood story for the holidays may lie with bargain website Woot. Contrary to recent rumors of a decline in interest for the PS3, one-bargain-a-day website, Woot managed to sell its entire stock of 80 20 GB PS3s within 4 minutes and 37 seconds.
According to the terms of the Woot offer each console sold for USD 499.99 + USD 5.00 for postage and packing. According to Woot's, extremely thorough, statistics an order for a PS3 was received every 3.5 seconds, during the 4 or so minutes that the offer lasted. Sworn enemies of the PS3 are likely to comment that the 80 units available are not an adequate quantity to excite Sony execs but this is the type of story we haven't heard since the PS3 launch and it may indicate a trend for the holiday season, a trend which may help salvage Sony's pride as its console has been at the receiving end of a lot of criticism by some very respectable press organizations such as the Sunday Times and TIME magazine.