PS3 may launch this fall in japan.
Long article but the gist is this:
In related news, Chinese technology website Mydrivers this week
reported comments made by an unnamed source at Taiwanese firm COMPEQ,
which is one of Sony's manufacturing partners for PlayStation Portable.
According to Mydrivers' source, COMPEQ will begin building printed
circuit boards for PlayStation 3 in June or July - implying that the
assembly of the console won't begin until mid-summer at the earliest,
and making an autumn launch seem all the more likely.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63207
PS3 launch details next week?(News)
by GamesIndustry.biz
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10/03/2006 13:48
Information from a number of independent sources is suggesting that
Sony may announce further details of its plans for PlayStation 3 next
week in Tokyo, with the revised launch schedule for the console being
at the top of the agenda.
News of a planned Sony Computer Entertainment press conference on March
15th was leaked by Koei boss Kiyoshi Komatsu, who told press at an
unrelated conference in Tokyo about the existence of the event and
speculated that "some details about the PS3 might be announced there".
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony Europe sources confirmed that a
major announcement is planned next week, but would not be drawn on
details of what will be discussed - which does mean that it's by no
means certain that PS3 will be on the agenda.
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However, the timing of the announcement suggests otherwise, coming as
it does a week before the Game Developers' Conference in San Jose, and
two weeks before the end of Sony's 2006 financial year.
Announcing further PS3 details in Tokyo next week would allow Sony to
give the Japanese press and business community forewarning of anything
that may be discussed at GDC, and would give SCE worldwide studios boss
Phil Harrison a far wider range of topics to address in his eagerly
awaited keynote speech in San Jose.
Crucially, it would also keep the announcements well away from the
firm's year-end, a period when it's generally frowned upon for large
Japanese corporations to make major strategy announcements.
Sony's current line is that there has been no change to its original
plan of launching PlayStation 3 in spring, but few in the industry find
this timescale realistic, with Namco Bandai president Takeo Takasu
describing it this week as "impossible".
In related news, Chinese technology website Mydrivers this week
reported comments made by an unnamed source at Taiwanese firm COMPEQ,
which is one of Sony's manufacturing partners for PlayStation Portable.
According to Mydrivers' source, COMPEQ will begin building printed
circuit boards for PlayStation 3 in June or July - implying that the
assembly of the console won't begin until mid-summer at the earliest,
and making an autumn launch seem all the more likely.