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Analysts Predict Massive Unit Reduction For PS3 Launch News

Analysts Predict Massive Unit Reduction For PS3 Launch News

Japanese analysts are predicting that issues in the manufacturing process could leave Sony far short of the magic six million...

By Jon Wilcox
Posted: 28/08/2006

At E3 2006, Sony announced that around six million PlayStation3 units would be available between launch in November and the company's end of fiscal year, though analysts from Japan are reporting that the actual figure could be far less.

Representing Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, analyst Masahiko Ishino argued that Sony is facing problems obtaining the required quantities of certain parts for the next-gen system - and that only three million PS3s may be ready for the launch period.

As a result of Ishino-san's remarks, shares in Sony fell by over 3%.

The situation faced by Sony, if accurate, will follow a similar situation encountered by Microsoft when it launched Xbox 360 at the end of 2005, leading to delayed supply of the console.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757 By: Anonymous Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756 This post need to die so why don't you all shut the fack up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied as sheet
	By: Anonymous Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756 This post need to die so why don't you all shut the [#@!?] up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied[#@!?][#@!?].
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 11:09, Post No: 755 but people have come to accept the rrod its been happening for years now unlike the yellow light of death thats not because of unreliable parts but due to a firmware update, is this an indication that sony had tried to overclock the ps3 and may have had a stable overclock but releasing a firmware update with the overclock included may have caused the trapped gas in the circuit boards.
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 03:42, Post No: 754 Actually we can still complain about the RROD because the xbox has a 54 percent failure rate compared to the PS3's 14.7 OFF Topic: MAG will be pwnage
	By: Arc1991 Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 18:54, Post No: 753 good point, but who's to say the complaints wont keep coming in? could easily be a majour fault in the system. but i aint gettin called a fanboy again so ill stick with ur comment =) lets just hope sony can address the problem like microsoft did with the enw motherboards they were using
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 01:40, Post No: 752 It's really a low failure rate when compared to Xbox's 45% failure rate in the earlier generations of systems. A .5% deficiant rate is quite low and seems an acceptable rate for any product. It seems that if Sony can compensate these very few failures with replacement systems ect. then this would be a very small problem.
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	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:22, Post No: 750 NFS on PS3!Heaven on Earth www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=s8V8lFMQsZM Need For Speed SHIFT - illegal racing in Prague
	By: Arc1991 Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 15:24, Post No: 749 hahaha PS3 has the "YROD" XD hehehe now none of yas can complain about the "RROD" =P
	By: Arc1991 Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748 736 i mean, sorry my bad