Thanks to Andy07 for the head"s up on this story. Sony sold 88,400 PlayStation 3 consoles over the weekend in Japan according to Japanese magazine company Enterbrain, which publishes Famitsu. The number falls around halfway between the 100,000 launch-unit target Sony was aiming for and the 80,000 figure reported in the Nikkei Shimbun prior to launch. The best selling games were Namco Bandai"s Ridge Racer 7 and Gundam: Target in Sight, both of which sold around 30,000 units. The near-instant total depletion of hardware stock has led to a huge number of Internet auctions for so-called "used" PS3 consoles spring up, some with asking prices more than twice that charged by retail. It"s a trend that"s even being felt in Europe. Some web-based importers have decided not to sell the console to clients in the European Union after Sony enjoyed success in its attempts to stifle Hong Kong-based Lik-Sang, which went out of business recently. But one London-based importer is known to be offering the console, along with its five launch titles, for GBP 1500.