Sony' s plans have been in disarray after it was forced to scale back the launch of the PlayStation 3 following a shortage of blue laser diodes that are at the heart of the newfangled Blu-ray drive. Opening shipments for America and Japan were slashed and the console will only hit Europe in November

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http://games.kikizo.com/news/200610/116.asp

read near the end of th article.

Is this true or a typo? thats over 6 months after sonys supposed European launch!!

YEAH RIGHT...

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Do you believe this or not Quez?

anyway at this rate sony is going to delay the ps3 into obsolecence! LOL

Ofc i don' t.

this can be anything but a typo... sony if you do this you suck big time...

I wouldn' t be surprised if that " typo" is real, but if it was, then I wouldn' t be surprised if they pushed back the launch until Spring.

I think they should launch in spring. I mean, they' d have more games, more AAA titles, and more units. But if they did that, then a good amount of pissed of people would pick up a 360/Wii, and then they wouldn' t have thier 400,000 blue-ray players out on the market this winter either.

The longer it takes to launch the PS3 outside of the US and Japan the more sales Sony will loose to MS and Nintendo. If this happens Sony is 100% f*cked.

ok i read the article now, i think this is a typo, otherwise this would be the healine of the article " PS3 DELAYED TO NOVEMBRE IN EUROPE"

exactly.

It might be so that they skip japan and go only for USA:

I wouldn' t be suprised to see that us europeans get the release delayed again, but november? That' s BS.

I agree with you. Anyway I really hope that the european launch will continue to be set on spring, even with few units.

Well for my mind its difficult to mistake March for November (amirite?) so its a big question why they so casually slipped in November when discussing the 20% cut in Japanese ps3 launch units (maybe they cut the just recently announced core pack that was going for US$430 hehehehe). I think that this is still a plausable outcome, considering all the botched sony promises regarding there launch schedule

for you convenience -

Spring 2006 World wide launch - lie

November 2006 world wide launch - lie

2million ps3 for launch and 2 million for the end of the year - lie

2 million between launch and years end - lie

100k for japan - lie

Europe/rest of the world in November 2007 - true??? (well even sony can change)

November or not, it won' t hit in March.

They just announced,only 80k of units will be out in Japan.

They promised 100-150k before.

So basically it' s USA that get the most units..-

You' ve got a point there. But if it' s gonna release in november, I' m going to Sony' s headquaters and beat up that butt ugly Ken Kutargi, who' s with me?

September.

im going to laugh my ass off if they postpone it more!

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September.

2008????

2007.

It uses that much power!! Damn! I will have to buy 10 more hamsters now!!!