taken from Fragland http://www.fragland.net/news.php?id=12572


The head of the French publishing company Ubisoft, has stated that Europe shouldn' t expect the PlayStation 3 console before November. This would mean, exactly a year after the Xbox360 was released.

Yves Guillemot furthermore said that the PS3 will be available this summer (probably June or July) for Japanese residents. The US release would follow in September, leaving Europe (once again) as last.

" We think September could be the right time for Sony in the US and November in Europe," he said, " Japan a bit earlier, say June or July."


This is more realistic than " spring 2006" and if it is true, then we are in for a tight regional realse. And europe isnt left behind.


And if you havent heard the news yet about The Blue ray encoding..

Region 1: North America, South America, East Asia except for China (India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia etc.)
Region 2: Europe and Africa
Region 3: China, Russia and other countries

which means north america should have very good game tradeings with Japan.


But everything isnt final, so dont take all of this seriously yet.