Tagged: PS3
Wall Street Says PS3 Shortages Imminent
Michael Pachter, market analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has raised concerns over the 4 million-unit production goal that Sony has established for its PS3. Presently, Sony,s goal is to produce 2 million units by launch, and another 2 million before… Read More »
PS3 Will Fight Cancer
In a somewhat altruistic move, Sony has struck a partnership with Folding@home, a distributed computing project, similar to the well-known SETI program. Both use a small segment of a processor,s leftover power for number crunching. Only instead of searching for… Read More »
Blue Laser Shortage May Effect PS3 Quotas
Sony,s plan to produce at least 4 million PS3 units by the end of the year may have hit a snag. A report by DigiTimes has indicated that the manufacturers of the blue laser diodes, a crucial component for Blu-ray… Read More »
Sony President Upbeat On PS3's Future
SCEA’s Kaz Hirai was interviewed by CNET and delivered some candid answers to hard-hitting questions about the upcoming PS3, offering his take on the status and future of Sony’s next gen console. Hirai remarked about the expected longevity of the… Read More »
Retailers Confident PS3 Will Sell Out in UK
UK retail stores are not only enthusiastic about the PS3, they believe that the PS3 will be a monster hit. Don McCabe, the managing director for the UK retail franchise Chips, told GamesIndustry “Microsoft is really pulling out the big… Read More »
Analyst Says Sony Can't Produce 6M PS3s by March
This week, SCEA CEO Kaz Hirai hinted at the possibility of a shortage of PS3s upon launch day. He said, “But even if you do the simple math you’re talking about less than 700,000 units per… major territory, between launch… Read More »
Sony to Reveal 27 PS3 Titles at TGS 2006
By Frank Ling, GN Senior Writer Sony Corp. has announced that it will have 27 playable PS3 titles for the Tokyo Game Show event, which will be held from September 22-24. The first Tokyo Game Show was held in 1996… Read More »
Sony Clarifies PS3 Launch Date
Will the PS3 be ready for launch day? This question continues to plague Sony.
Sony Denies PS3 in Manufacturing Phase
Earlier this year, a news story surfaced from the Taiwan Commercial Times that the PS3 was already in production. According to the report, the expected production numbers for Sony,s next gen game console would be approximately 200,000 by the end… Read More »
Sony's Hirai Likes Yankee's Predictions
Earlier this week, Sony received some good news from analysts at the Yankee Group, who said that the PS3 would take the lead in the next gen console wars by the year 2011. Kaz Hirai, SCEA CEO, responded to the… Read More »
