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The Nihon Keizai Shimbun suggests a November Japanese launch...
Reporting ahead of tomorrow's press event, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun is suggesting that Sony will confirm a delay to the Playstation 3 until November 2006 in Japan.
The paper maintains earlier claims that the Blu-ray technology is behind the delay, claiming copy protection issues surrounding the format are specifically to blame.
The news comes after reports have emerged citing claims by Microsoft that any delay to the PS3 scheduling could have a positive effect on the sale of Xbox 360, providing a larger then expected "headstart" period to gain a significant grip over the Western market at least.
Whether or not the delay leads to a knock-on affect throughout the West remains to be seen, but look out for further information very shortly.
[UPDATE]
Further information to this report suggests that if Sony were to stick to the planned Spring 2006 launch then it would only be able to supply 500,000 units to the market, compared to the 2.5 million it believes are needed to avoid initial shortages.
This comment seems to suggest Sony was gearing towards a Japan launch at the outset, so whether or not the delay will lead to a simultaneous North American release remains to be seen - just don't expect the PS3 to surface in Europe until Spring 2007 at the earliest, hopefully we won't have to endure the nine month wait it took for the PSP to appear.
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757
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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
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[#@!?][#@!?].
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.
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
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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
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.
Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:26, Post No: 751
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Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:22, Post No: 750
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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
Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748
736 i mean, sorry my bad