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Sony Shafts Europe with PS3 Launch Delay

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 2006 6:00 PM

Submitted by Scopitone. Edited By Scopitone.

TAGS: Sony, PS3, Blue Ray, Xbox 360, Wii,

Come November 11th and 17th anyone in Japan and the US with a mysteriously large wad of cash will be able to pick up their beloved PS3 at their local electronics shop. Sony fans in the UK, Russia, Africa, and Australia have been anticipating joining their geek brothers in sweet solidarity on those same days. All was right with the world. Today Sony has sadly announced that due to a lack of fancy blue laser diodes they will not be making their previously set production goals.

London, Wednesday 6 September 2006 � Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that it would revise the launch date of its PLAYSTATION� 3 computer entertainment system in the PAL territories of Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Australasia from 17th November 2006, as previously announced to March 2007.
Launch dates for Japan and North America will remain the same, which are November 11th and November 17th respectively.
The revision of the launch date in the SCEE territories is caused by the delay in the mass production schedule of the blue laser diode within the Sony Group, thus affecting the timely procurement of key components to be utilised in PLAYSTATION 3.
The previously announced PLAYSTATION 3 shipment forecast of 6 million units globally within the fiscal year ending 2007 is not changed.

Sony already has an uphill battle to face with the steep price tag of its PS3 and could have benefited from the hilariously loose spending habits regularly found around the holiday season. Consumers in those regions are now left with the more affordable and readily available Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Good luck Sony! You'll get it right one of these days.

15 Comments

msupenguin

San Francisco, CA

March 2006

SEP 06, 2006 06:09 PM

youd think they would appreciate the extra time to save up enough to buy the thing.

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Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

SEP 06, 2006 06:39 PM

msupenguin said:
youd think they would appreciate the extra time to save up enough to buy the thing.

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Signon

Austin, TX

June 2005

SEP 06, 2006 07:21 PM

Sony announced today that PS3s will be shipping with copies of Paris Hilton's CDs, as well as live smallpox cultures.

Emperor_Norton

Phoenix, AZ

February 2006

SEP 06, 2006 09:48 PM

Signon said:
Sony announced today that PS3s will be shipping with copies of Paris Hilton's CDs, as well as live smallpox cultures.

That's just the basic version. The deluxe PS3 comes with all the above goodies, plus a free Hezbollah membership card, a year's supply of child pornography on Blu-Ray, and an audio recording of Fran Drescher and Gilbert Gottfried 69-ing.

Emperor_Norton

Phoenix, AZ

February 2006

SEP 06, 2006 09:48 PM

noirkiss3

Minneapolis, MN

April 2006

SEP 06, 2006 09:54 PM

they will not be making their previously set production goals.

Have they ever?

Collapsingstar

Vancouver, BC

November 2002

SEP 06, 2006 10:08 PM

Like every other system launch I will wait untill the price drops and the game lineup is stronger. About a full extra year after rollout.
Whoohoo! November 2007!

meh?..

AnorexXxicNinja

Upper Darby, PA

August 2006

SEP 06, 2006 10:40 PM

Dudes and Dudets

I work behind the Scences at ur local Eb Games and GameStop
and lemme tell ya

PS3 WILL NOT BE OUT ON NOV 17

get it
got it
good

peace

PS
get Nintendos new system the "Wii"
its goin to be better and a hell of alot morew fun to play

u want info on it ask me

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA

December 2003

SEP 06, 2006 11:07 PM

GetBornAgain said:
Dudes and Dudets

I work behind the Scences at ur local Eb Games and GameStop
and lemme tell ya

PS3 WILL NOT BE OUT ON NOV 17

get it
got it
good

peace

Uh-huh. It's well known among us Gamestop managers that the counter monkies (I mean game advisors) working "behind the scenes" in Upper Darby, PA are plugged into the secret workings of Sony's video game division.

JimmyKitty

Oakland, CA

January 2006

SEP 06, 2006 11:33 PM

Emperor_Norton said:

Signon said:
Sony announced today that PS3s will be shipping with copies of Paris Hilton's CDs, as well as live smallpox cultures.

And STILL they will buy it in the millions. Forget it, there's no fighting against the Beast. Not yet, at least. Nintendo is better? Sure, but so was a gadzillion other "better" products and games and still the lame product with the better marketing spin won.

Don't get me wrong, I like me some Sony, as well (at one time I had all three systems+ imports). But at some point you do scratch your head.

As others have said... I can wait. I'm having too much fun living my life right now, anyway. Video games for me = dangerous to my career.

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN

July 2003

SEP 07, 2006 12:01 AM

I could have dealt with all the next-gen consoles holding off another year or two. Plenty of life left in the ones we've got. Especially the Xbox, which was last out of the gate as far as having anything worth playing (besides Halo), but was shaping up nicely until the 360 came along and yanked the game support right out from under it.

Snottlebocket

Netherlands

March 2004

SEP 07, 2006 12:15 AM

on the plusside, remember what a killing you could make on xbox360 units in that first week or two after release?
i think ps3 is a pretty crap piece of hardware considering all the problems they're having with it, but i still don't doubt i could make a small fortune if i could get my hands on two or three of them on launchday and ebay the lot.