PS3's European Launch Delayed

[Gargoyle]

Sony's new game console's release in Europe has been pushed back to March 2007, while the US and Japan release is still scheduled for November of this year.

Mr Kutaragi blamed the European delay on problems in mass producing elements of the high-definition Blu-ray disc drives in the machines.

Sony said it still aimed to ship six million new PlayStations by March.

But it halved its forecast for the end of 2006, saying just two million units would be shipped worldwide before the end of December.
Sony has squandered their love on Blu-Ray, and has left little for their European customers.

Source: BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5319190.stm)

[rapture]

cha-ching! this whole release farce gets better and better :)

[Enverex]

A 5 MONTH delay? Wow. Going to see them going on european eBay for massive cash while asshats cash in on the desperate. Doesn't really supprise me though, europe is used to getting things far later than everyone else.

[GooD]

Seems like it will be really short on supply too for us...

They are planning to ship 400 000 ps3 for the US market and they will keep 100 000 ps3 for japan market.

Yep... its a 'big' total of 500 000 ps3 for the first month....

I bet after 1 day those ps3 will already be sold... lol

[Gargoyle]

I wonder if the Blu-Ray player isn't the only thing holding up production. Because it looks like the Cell processors are in demand:

One reason there's so much fuss (and delay) over the upcoming PlayStation 3 platform is the fact that it sports those new Cell processors jointly developed with Sony and Toshiba. Now those Cell procs are about to find themselves pumping away at the heart of a new $35 million supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory. But this won't be just supercomputer mind you, IBM is hoping to reclaim the title of the world's fastest once completed in 2007. Dubbed Roadrunner, ACME IBM plans to jump from 280-teraflops to a full petaflop performance by combining AMD Opteron blade servers and Cell-based accelerator systems.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/06/ibm-building-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-with-opteron-and-cell/

[CyrixInstead]

Always screwing over the European man...

~Cyrix

[rapture]

I wonder how much of this has to do with the lack of Pro Evo and Fifa games for a year...