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Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake

Posted Apr 4, 2011 at 9:19PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: Jack Tretton, ngp, Sony

Sony said that they might end up delaying the global release of the hotly anticipated next gen handheld game console due to the recent Japanese earthquake.

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In an interview with Bloomberg earlier today, SCEA president Jack Tretton said that production problems in several key factories brought on by the recent disaster in Japan have forced the firm to consider only one region for the handheld release by the end of the year.

"It may be the straw that says 'maybe we get to just one market by the end of the year," said Tretton, but he declined to comment on what region they are focusing right now.

Delaying the global launch of the device could further cause Sony to lose some market share with Nintendo and the blossoming smartphone industry in the portable gaming arena.

“It raises the bar on the competitive issues that Sony is going to have to hurdle,” said Edward Woo, a video-games analyst with Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles. “As it is now, it’s already going to be almost eight months behind Nintendo, and a delay could push that to a year.”

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fucking who cares, that earthquake happened long ago, you barely heard news of the chili quake where katrillion-billion-million people got sucked underground and had to live there for practically a whole year! Japan; only one city got actual tragic destruction, the media blew it up, making it seem like the WHOLE country had gone submerged.

+2 # wow — JonSin 2011-04-04 23:27

you seriously trying to say "fucking who care" about Japan right now? Classy, buddy.

# RE: wow — reza666 2011-04-05 11:09

Well i think he uses a bad way of saying his message, of course people care but the sad part is when such events happen in other countries no one seem to care or even hear about it, same thing when there was a huge earthquake in my country and hundreds were killed, i think it was on the news for a few days then nothing!
Media works in a mysterious way i must say.

# mmmm — emcp6666 2011-04-05 16:23

couple of hundred=couple of days

i believe japans has got a higher death toll

but totally agree the media is clinging on to everything and anything, recently more so than ever before

# ... — TheRockness 2011-04-05 15:40

Quoting AssassinXCV:

fucking who cares, that earthquake happened long ago, you barely heard news of the chili quake where katrillion-billion-million people got sucked underground and had to live there for practically a whole year! Japan; only one city got actual tragic destruction, the media blew it up, making it seem like the WHOLE country had gone submerged.

You sir, are a product of improper breeding.

# RE: RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — truk 2011-04-06 00:09

Quoting AssassinXCV:

katrillion-billion-million

i doubt that there are that many people in chili, just saying

# RE: RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — Mcjon 2011-04-07 13:06

All of your terrible points aside, you do understand that it doesn't take "tragic destruction" to disrupt a supply chain, right? You might think the disaster is no big deal because the entire country wasn't submerged, but that doesn't mean that production won't be impacted across a wide spectrum of industries in Japan, even if they weren't directly damaged by the quake.

-2 # So what... — DarkAlek 2011-04-05 01:34

The PSP was a failure, the NGP will be even more of a failure due to existing products being cheaper and more technologically advanced.

-2 # ... — SeRosiS 2011-04-05 01:53

I was wondering if they were gonna do that.

Maybe they were afraid to announce this earlier fearing a gamer backlash of sorts.

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — AddHeck 2011-04-05 03:47

Its a effing magnitude 9 earthquake with TSUNAMIS and you think its limited to one city?

You're an idiot!

Besides when has Chili been associated with electronics and new tech? Despite other claims Japan still makes the most vital electronic components, china just makes everything else then assembles them. And even though the earthquake happen a month ago the effects are still there like factories that need repair and power outages not to mention radiation.

# Understandable — Acteon 2011-04-05 04:30

I don't think a few months is going to kill it, though missing Christmas is going to cost Sony in the short term.

+1 # RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — soppyhankins 2011-04-05 09:29

This may sound messed up, but if they're going to release it, it won't be in Japan. Because of all the destruction, people don't have the money over there right now for an NGP. They have more important things like fixing there house, car, getting food, etc. It would be smartest to release it in North America or in Europe.

# Meister — Wombler 2011-04-05 10:44

The NGP will be wicked and all the Nintendogs will swarm over it like fleas.

Support Japan by buying its radioactive sushi

Aie!

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — fanoultimate 2011-04-05 11:43

I'm ok with this. Besides, meanwhile Japan is recovering from the earthquake/tsuname/radioactivity, Sony can prepare more stuff for the ngp.

I can wait

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — billtoo 2011-04-05 12:32

I thought they already said it was a EU release first. I think I read that on this site. Pretty sure I commented on it.

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — Null 2011-04-05 12:40

I bet even if the earthquake didn't happen it will still be delayed knowing how fast Sony works.

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — hmm 2011-04-06 14:11

By that time, NGP will be so outdated compare to other mobile device and Sony will still sell it for arms n legs :)

# RE: Tretton: NGP may be delayed due to quake — Simon Says 2011-04-06 16:09

For their role in the Fujima Nuclear Catastrophe and RadioActive Poisoning of the Pacific Ocean, Sony Need to Give Every Gamer in The World a Courtesy Free NGP, As a Measure of Their Goodwill and Love of Their Fellow Man

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