Sony is waiting on industry consortiums, most notably its Blu-Ray group, to make final decisions on the new DVD technology. The P3 is slated to be a major vehicle for the new medium. A US release could be as late as Thanksgiving.
“Sony’s design choices for the PS3 [have] resulted in an expensive and difficult-to-manufacture product, and we think that we’re seeing the consequences of those choices play out now,” Merrill Lynch wrote in a recent report. (from related article on FT.com}
Potentially good news for my favorite in the console wars, the Revolution, if Nintendo can capitalize on on the delay by releasing before the P3.
Source: BBC


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