Sony to miss projected 2M end of year target

Europe will be left waiting well past March. That' s becomming pretty clear.

Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year' s shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive.

Sony plans to ship two million PlayStation 3 players this year to the U.S. and Japan, and six million worldwide by March. The Tokyo-based company said yesterday annual profit would fall 35 percent to its lowest in five years on price cuts of the console in Japan and a recall of 9.6 million computer batteries.

``The honest answer is it' s more of a target' ' for PlayStation 3 shipments, Jack Tretton, co-chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said yesterday in an interview. ``Clearly we' ve had production issues.' '

A shortage of the PlayStation 3 would give Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. a bigger head start in the $20 billion console market when they sell their players next month in time for the year' s biggest sales season. Sony cut the price of the PS3 in Japan after consumers complained it was too expensive compared with Microsoft' s Xbox 360 and Nintendo' s Wii.

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Europe will be left waiting well past March. That' s becomming pretty clear.

Could that mean I might just have VF5 as an unofficial launch game

Let' s hope it' s not region-locked, as that really would mess things up bad.

Miss March?

what? they want a death warrent?

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Looks like Sony' s going to have 2 positives and 2 negatives in the hardware launch department. The PlayStation and PSP launches went smoothly, whereas the PlayStation 2 and now the PlayStation 3 launch will be filed in the rushed, sloppy launch category.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Let' s just push all the launch dates back and do it right Sony! That' s bull. Although not unexpected. They say they' re having trouble, and then go right on saying they' ll meet their goal for production, and then there' s rumours about them missing it, and then they finally say that their goal was more of a hazy starting point to begin with.

Three weekas ago I read that Sony might not be able to reach its 2 million goal, this is old news to me. It looks like we' ll have a better chance at finding Jesus November 17th then finding a PS3.

ORIGINAL: Agent Ghost

Three weekas ago I read that Sony might not be able to reach its 2 million goal, this is old news to me. It looks like we' ll have a better chance at finding Jesus November 17th then finding a PS3.

LOL

NiGHTS into Dreamcast