I'm willing to bet it will be pushed back to fall...maybe summer release for japan..fall for US....and late 2006...to early 2007 for EU

With the blu-ray fiasco....no sign of demos of games...no sign of preorders...no sign of anything really suggesting it to be launched in spring besides sony saying, 'yes it will launch in spring" I don't see how it could make it to spring...



Unless.



Sony has kept everything on the downlow....and will blow us all way in at least a month....



Because Spring ends in April right?......

I doubt it.......mid 2007 is my guess.

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I will not belive anything from "unnamed spokeswoman". Until Sony itself releases a press release stating different, I will still believe the Spring 06 launch.



If it was really Sony, it would have a name. I love all this "unnamed" junk flying around. Here's a thought, be big enough to put a name, if not, then stop beliveing everything you see/hear from "unnamed".



Depeneds on when this was actually pur somewhere, the Anti-Piracy for both Blu and HD stopped Sony for a day or two, due to the software.



And those who belive they are having an issue with the drives, remember this, they are the creators and manufactures of the drives, so then you would see the stand alone units also yelling about a delay.

So finally some word on the launch.

The same anaylsts and same hype mongering idiots went on and on about the PSP costing $500 or $600 and being delayed till mid 2005 (just google, there are hundreds of analysts reports).. and yet the PSP was launched when Sony said - Nov 2004. At a pretty decent price (certainly for what was in it). So quit with the hype/rumour mongering. The only people that WANT the PS3 to be delayed are X360 fanboys.. and they dont have alot to be happy about at the moment. With only 850,000 units sold up until the end of Jan 2006 (see NPD reports) .. it has been an utterly poor launch.. and futher poor pickup rate for a holiday season.

Analysts are never right...I don't recall one time that an analysts predictions were even close to the final costs. So we should wait untill sony officially anounces the price....



Why should 360 fanboys not have something to be happy about?...of the 850,000 people that have a 360...I don't see why they won't be happy.



I agree that the launch of the console was poor, but when it comes to the games...it is better then most...especially the ps2 and ps1 launches(as far as games go)

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Btw PS2 wasnt that bad - the launch statistics are funny when you look them up. The PS2 launched with 29 games in the US :) .. more than any other console yet. Seems people have bad memories for that sort of thing. Heres a little list of the console launches in US, with some of the titles that came out with it:

Launch titles for PSP (24): Lumines, Ridge Racer, Tiger Woods, FIFA, NFSU, Wipeout.

Launch titles for PS2 (29 ): DOA2, DW2, Madden, Midnight Club, Ridge Racer, SSX, Summoner, Tekken Tag

Launch titles for Xbox (19): Halo, Oddworld, PGR, Madden, Tony Hawks, DOA3

Launch titles for GC (12): Wave Race, Star Wars RS, Super Monkey ball, Madden, Tony Hawks 2

The reason I mentioned 850,000 was poor, is that it is way below MS expectations. They have now twice revised their first quarter targets, and will need to again. Not alot to cheer about in terms of market penetration, and gaining any sort of market lead.