i bet i know what happened, i read a recent article about the new walmart CEO and the challenges the company is facing. their biggest problem is running out of stock on high demand items, compounded by hiring less and asking remaining employees to do more. It said its become a huge problem, where pallets of unsold inventory is sitting around in the back and employees are too busy to move them out unless they are tagged as high priority sales.
i bet this one store just had a pallet of these older PS3s and someone finally discovered them and the manager wants to clear out these expensive items before their boss gets wind of the screwup. Looking around in my state and california there are pretty much 0 around, I wonder if they were a 2012 or 2013 christmas item.