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Thursday September 7, 2006
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 According to the Financial Times, "the launch of the PS3 in November has been compromised by the company's failure to overcome technical problems in mass producing a laser diode needed to make the product's ground-breaking Blu-ray DVD technology work properly." Ouch.
Sony's next-gen game console has already been delayed once; now the number of units available in the U.S. in November will be reduced to 2 million, and Europe won't see the PS3 till next March. This could prove a major setback for Sony in the console wars, with the Xbox 360 available since last year and the Nintendo Wii on schedule to ship in the fourth quarter this year. The FT says Sony shares closed down 1.6 per cent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after this news broke; the company took a tumble a couple weeks ago too, after the Apple and Dell faulty-battery recalls (both used Sony batteries).
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September 7, 2006 9:35 PM
Its 400k units now in the US, 100k units in Japan, 2million might be by Summer time.
September 8, 2006 2:16 PM
Whenever it shows up, developers are already jumping ship, the development boxes look like nightmares and are twice the size of the proposed case, features keep dropping off of the PS3, and more and more game designers are complaining about Sony and the platform in general. I mean seriously, Sony's going to have to pull this one off gloriously, and I mean gloriously, in order for the PS3 to be any kind of success. Nintendo and Microsoft have sure-bet winners on their hands with the Wii and the XBox 360, Sony's really going to have to come to the table with something good. Me? I hope they do, but it's not looking good at all.