urgent ps3 news!!!

[CRABcrap]

i got this in an article from news.com

Despite Sony's previous announcement of a spring 2006 launch for the PS3, a consensus of industry analysts believes that the PS3 won't ship until later this year in North America, with a possible midyear launch in Japan.

But unless the console has a $699 price tag, there won't be any problem with demand. When Sony launched its PlayStation 2 in 2000 in Japan, it sold 980,000 units in its first weekend. In its first day in U.S. retailers, Sony moved 510,000 PS2 consoles. To date, the PS2 has sold more than 100 million units

[CRABcrap]

sorry about that i should have put the whole article...i was in a hurry to get a news summary done.

HERE is the whole article
>Forecast: Up to 7 million PlayStation 3s to ship soon

(date of article 1/19/06)Just yesterday, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities gave a sunnier estimate, predicting 1 million PS3 consoles would be available for a November launch. By contrast, Microsoft moved only about 326,000 in the week of November 22, when the Xbox 360 went on sale.

However, Wilson's optimism looks like it's coming from the Grim Reaper in comparison to Pioneer executive Andy Parson's belief. Speaking with Web site The Digital Bits, Parsons talked about the Blu-ray disc format (Pioneer announced several Blu-ray-compatible players at CES) and how the Blu-ray-compatible PlayStation 3 would shape the success of the format.

"The PS3 is launching right at the forefront of Blu-ray disc," Parsons said. "If Sony ships the kind of numbers we expect them to this year, that will provide a very rapid growth of players out there hungry for titles. We've been hearing between 4 (million) and 7 million (PS3s) could ship."

When its Xbox 360 console launched late last year, Microsoft experienced rampant shortages in the U.S. and Europe. However, it was largely due to supply constraints on some of the system's internal parts. The company originally targeted 3 million units to be out the door in the console's first 90 days on the market, but adjusted its figures to 4.5 million to 5.5 million consoles to be shipped by June 2006.

Despite Sony's previous announcement of a spring 2006 launch for the PS3, a consensus of industry analysts believes that the PS3 won't ship until later this year in North America, with a possible midyear launch in Japan.

If Sony shipped between 4 million and 7 million units in less than six months (with the likely scenario of several months in Japan only), the company would outpace Microsoft's lofty goals. To do that, Sony would need a near-perfect production process unmarred by supply shortages and hardware issues.

But unless the console has a $699 price tag, there won't be any problem with demand. When Sony launched its PlayStation 2 in 2000 in Japan, it sold 980,000 units in its first weekend. In its first day in U.S. retailers, Sony moved 510,000 PS2 consoles. To date, the PS2 has sold more than 100 million units.

Sony had not responded to inquiries from GameSpot as of press time.

[LordYggdrasill]

WOW $699 .

So we wont get the PS3 until November 2006

[Deslock]

Sony is doing the right thing. Rather than giving us a substandard product, they're taking their time and doing it right, from the get go.

Gamers are demanding alot of things. They want it free online. They want the quality to surpass the X-Crotch 360; and be backwards compatible for all their games that they've already bought. (Unlike the X-Crotch 360). Which is going to be hard, due to the Blu-ray tech that they're working on.

I'd rather they take their sweet time about it, and make it right, out of the box, then give us a "hurried" POS that could potentialy "burn our houses down". After reading the tech specs between the new systems, the PS3 is going to own the X-Crotch 360, just as the PS1 owned the Nintendo SNES and Sega. The PSP is awesome, just too expensive right now for my tastes, but just wait and see.

"Pay for play?" No thanks. The new X-Crotch: Online gaming for free? Yeah, right. Play DVD's, Ya gotta pay. New maps for games you already own? Ya gotta pay. New content? Guess what? Ya gotta pay, for what you've already bought, and paid for. No thanks. How many times do you have to pay for what you've already bought?. (See a paattern here?.)

So Sony, take your time. and make it right from the get go. I vote with my wallet. "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

Just wait and see,

Tie.

[SHOOTORDIE]

yeah i read about the techs too, and there was item listed as "cooling system". Can someone explain to me the blu-ray system?> i haven't been keeping up on the new systems much because i like the current ones.

[Kerry2]

Blu-Ray is Sony's version of a High Defenition DVD format. Right now there are two different types. Blu-Ray, formed by Sony, and HD-DVD, formed by Toshiba. Unfortunately at the current time they are not cross compatible but there are supposedly talks of combining the technology to create one uber HD format.

Right now (PS2) you're getting 480 lines of resolution, meaning that there's 480 lines of pixels used to create the picture on your tv. With the new Blu-Ray technology it will jump to 1080 lines. So you'll be getting, for lack of a better way to say it, 2.25 times the picture you're getting now. Now granted there's also differences in interlaced and progressive scan but the preceding was just a basic explination. If I've missed something someone please chime in and fill in the blanks.

Oh yeah, and it's called Blu-ray because instead of the standard Red laser that is used in current DVD/CD players the laser uses focused blue light.