The_Professor
09-06-2006, 04:58 PM
http://blog.wired.com/games/#1551606
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Kutaragi: PS3 2006 Shipments Cut in Half, Launch Numbers Low
Topic: Console Games
http://blog.wired.com/games/brokenps3.jpg*clunk*
Aaaand that would be the other shoe dropping.
Forbes reports (http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2006/09/06/afx2995529.html) that PlayStation chief Ken Kutaragi has just announced that Sony will only ship 2 million units of the PlayStation 3 by the end of the calendar year, coming in juuuust shy of the 4 million they announced at E3:But as the technical problem with the Blu-ray system weighs on the launch of mass production of the PS3, Kutaragi said he now expects the combined shipments of PS3 consoles for the Japanese and US markets to come in at 'slightly above 2.0 mln units' between November and December.
The company had initially planned to ship 4.0 mln consoles globally until the end of 2006.
It was going to be really hard to get a PlayStation 3, already. Now that there's only going to be one million units to go around in each territory, it just went from "really hard" to "damn near impossible."
UPDATE: As if tonight couldn't get any more jam-packed with insanity, an Associated Press article reveals launch-day numbers (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/06/business/AS_FIN_COM_Japan_Sony_PlayStation.php). While the US will get 400,000 machines at launch, Japan will only get 100,000. That's about two-thirds of what the Nintendo DS sells in any given week, there.
This is getting too crazy to handle.
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PS3 Delayed to March 2007 in EU, Australia, etc.
Topic: Console Games
http://blog.wired.com/games/euro.gifSo literally just this morning I was thinking to myself: "Man, when is Sony finally going to just up and announce that the PlayStation 3 will be bumped back to 2007 in Europe?"
Apparently I either:
am psychic, or
control Sony with my thoughtsbecause just now, they announced it (http://www.scee.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=4268&NewsAreaID=2). Regardless of their claims this past E3 to stage a global launch, you ain't gettin' no PS3 until March 2007 at the earliest if you live in Europe, Australia, or one of several other miscellaneous countries.
I'd link the post where I so totally called this back in April, except it also contains me pooh-poohing the notion that PS3 would cost $600. Whoops. Eh, here it is anyway (http://blog.wired.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1452086).
The reason for the delay, as per the release, is this: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.
Of course, they then go on to say:
The previously announced PLAYSTATION 3 shipment forecast of 6 million units globally within the fiscal year ending 2007 is not changed.
Maybe so, but they're omitting the other parts of the previously announced shipment forecasts, namely, the ones that said 2 million units at launch and 4 million by the end of the calendar year. Are we to jettison these, or were they simply left off because they don't pertain to Europe (anymore)?
Guess I'm buying that 360 now.
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Kutaragi: PS3 2006 Shipments Cut in Half, Launch Numbers Low
Topic: Console Games
http://blog.wired.com/games/brokenps3.jpg*clunk*
Aaaand that would be the other shoe dropping.
Forbes reports (http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2006/09/06/afx2995529.html) that PlayStation chief Ken Kutaragi has just announced that Sony will only ship 2 million units of the PlayStation 3 by the end of the calendar year, coming in juuuust shy of the 4 million they announced at E3:But as the technical problem with the Blu-ray system weighs on the launch of mass production of the PS3, Kutaragi said he now expects the combined shipments of PS3 consoles for the Japanese and US markets to come in at 'slightly above 2.0 mln units' between November and December.
The company had initially planned to ship 4.0 mln consoles globally until the end of 2006.
It was going to be really hard to get a PlayStation 3, already. Now that there's only going to be one million units to go around in each territory, it just went from "really hard" to "damn near impossible."
UPDATE: As if tonight couldn't get any more jam-packed with insanity, an Associated Press article reveals launch-day numbers (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/06/business/AS_FIN_COM_Japan_Sony_PlayStation.php). While the US will get 400,000 machines at launch, Japan will only get 100,000. That's about two-thirds of what the Nintendo DS sells in any given week, there.
This is getting too crazy to handle.
Posted by Chris Kohler at 1:47 AM PDT | Post Comment (http://javascript<b></b>:add_comment('1551606')) | View Comments (14) (http://blog.wired.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1551606) | Permalink (http://blog.wired.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1551606)
PS3 Delayed to March 2007 in EU, Australia, etc.
Topic: Console Games
http://blog.wired.com/games/euro.gifSo literally just this morning I was thinking to myself: "Man, when is Sony finally going to just up and announce that the PlayStation 3 will be bumped back to 2007 in Europe?"
Apparently I either:
am psychic, or
control Sony with my thoughtsbecause just now, they announced it (http://www.scee.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=4268&NewsAreaID=2). Regardless of their claims this past E3 to stage a global launch, you ain't gettin' no PS3 until March 2007 at the earliest if you live in Europe, Australia, or one of several other miscellaneous countries.
I'd link the post where I so totally called this back in April, except it also contains me pooh-poohing the notion that PS3 would cost $600. Whoops. Eh, here it is anyway (http://blog.wired.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1452086).
The reason for the delay, as per the release, is this: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.
Of course, they then go on to say:
The previously announced PLAYSTATION 3 shipment forecast of 6 million units globally within the fiscal year ending 2007 is not changed.
Maybe so, but they're omitting the other parts of the previously announced shipment forecasts, namely, the ones that said 2 million units at launch and 4 million by the end of the calendar year. Are we to jettison these, or were they simply left off because they don't pertain to Europe (anymore)?
Guess I'm buying that 360 now.