It's Official: Sony Delays PS3 Release Until November

Dyre Straits · Mar 15, 2006, 06:52 AM

Reuters is reporting an official delay of the PlayStation 3 until November due to some technology development delays....

http://today.reuters.com/business/ne...4&imageid=&cap=

A snippet:

Sony Corp. will delay the release of its new PlayStation 3 video game console until early November because development of some of the technology is behind schedule, Japanese newspapers said on Wednesday.

bananaman · Mar 15, 2006, 08:57 AM

and a comment article:

Finally, Kutaragi got to the PlayStation 3. The launch date for the PS3 was announced as being some time within the first ten days of November 2006. Unlike the PlayStation 2, this launch is now scheduled for simultaneous release in Japan, the United States and Europe, emulating Microsoft's worldwide launch strategy with the Xbox 360. Sony is targeting a production rate of 1 million units a month for each market, bringing available units up to 6 million worldwide through November and December 2006, Kutaragi said.

The reason for the delay was given as "problems with a copy protection format" for its Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, preventing a planned release this spring.

Some good news for developers and gamers: the PS3 will ship with a 60 GB hard drive included with the system, meaning that game developers can assume that one is present. The PS3 will be backwards compatible with PS2 and PS1 games, playing them at higher resolutions than on the original hardware. The PS3 will apparently support "next-generation HDMI" which could mean HDMI with 5.1 sound support, something that current HDMI hardware apparently [color=#008902]has difficulty with.[/color]

No details on pricing were given at the conference.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060315-6385.html

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