PS3 delayed in Europe (and beyond)

[HUGECOOL]

Playstation has never been a flop. I don't know how thats going to change with a diferent release date. :rolleyes:

It's a known fact that consoles sell most during the holidays. Europe is one of Sony's strongest gaming markets. Sony is not launching the PS3 in Europe this year, therefore, it will face a giant loss in market share these coming holidays.
Parents looking for a PS3 for their child on Christmas will instead buy them a 360 or a Wii. This is why a simple date change can cause massive, uh, damage.

[JoeyK.]

Sony fanboys will have a 360 thats how ittl change

I sure as hell won't. I'll buy a PS3 & a Wii and I'll be happy

[Bear-Max]

Thats my Christmas down the pan.

O well, my birthday is in April, so Ill just have one for my birthday I guess.

Looks like X-Box and Wii is next gen. But seems like PS3 is going to be be the next gen of the next gen!!

The first sign of complete and utter fanboyism: pretending bad news is actually good news.

Sony messed up with this, big time. And they know it: even Kutarugi has said "If you asked me if Sony's strength in hardware was in decline, right now I guess I would have to say that might be true". Sony is losing it's grip on the hardware market because it's becoming too unreliable.

It's only going to get worse. Firstly, with the PS3 delayed, the only next-gen movie players will be the standalone ones. That means that the £999 Samsung Blu-Ray player is going head-to-head with the £450 Toshiba HD-DVD player. Even then, it's been suggested that the HD-DVD player is giving better quality. Add into the equation the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on that's expected to ship for under £200, and immediately Blu-Ray has quite a hurdle to overcome.

And without a doubt, if you thought the Xbox 360 hardware problems were bad, just wait until the PS3 comes out. It uses unproven technology such as Blu-Ray and the new Cell chip, so you can imagine the teething problems.

[Troubling]

sony have missed the christmas sales so maybe theyll lower the price lol. The Wii will sell millions upon millions becuase the nintendo DS outsold the PSP becuase people in china and japan prefer new technology such as the DS touch screen. and the Wii is much cheaper.

[Bear-Max]

Don't get me wrong though - the PS3 will sell millions because whatever price it's at, the Japanese just want to play Final Fantasy. FFIII on the DS sold a massive 500 000 copies last week - more than the rest of the chart combined.

I've never understood why Microsoft just didn't buy out Square-Enix - it might pee off the Japanese, but they'd certainly start shalling out for Xbox 360s.

[Frodo13.]

There is only one thing I will agree with on this. The fact that Playstation have lost out majorly on the 06 winter sales. But in the long-term, they will just make just as much money as they will in USA and Japan because they will have 07, 08, 09 maybe even 10 to make up for it.

[Frodo13.]

The first sign of complete and utter fanboyism: pretending bad news is actually good news.

Sony messed up with this, big time. And they know it: even Kutarugi has said "If you asked me if Sony's strength in hardware was in decline, right now I guess I would have to say that might be true". Sony is losing it's grip on the hardware market because it's becoming too unreliable.

It's only going to get worse. Firstly, with the PS3 delayed, the only next-gen movie players will be the standalone ones. That means that the £999 Samsung Blu-Ray player is going head-to-head with the £450 Toshiba HD-DVD player. Even then, it's been suggested that the HD-DVD player is giving better quality. Add into the equation the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on that's expected to ship for under £200, and immediately Blu-Ray has quite a hurdle to overcome.

And without a doubt, if you thought the Xbox 360 hardware problems were bad, just wait until the PS3 comes out. It uses unproven technology such as Blu-Ray and the new Cell chip, so you can imagine the teething problems.

Sorry for the double post, but why do you think they witheld it in the 1st place? To fix glitches of course. We will all see what does better when sale figures come out.

[HUGECOOL]

Sorry for the double post, but why do you think they witheld it in the 1st place? To fix glitches of course. We will all see what does better when sale figures come out.

Glitches will always be there, especially for Sony right now. They didn't delay production of the console on purpose. It was delayed because there weren't enough laser diodes to fill their needs. It's also already been said that the Cell processor yields 10x slower than its supposed to, but Sony has decided to ship it that way anyway.

For people hoping on a cheaper price for May, you too are out of luck. The delayed release is only costing Sony millions upon millions of dollars plus, the PS3 will gather major loses per console sold. Having a price drop on a system not even a year after its offical release is not possible. at the minimum, a fiscal year has to pass before Sony even think about a price drop- that's how it works. The 360 might get a price drop soon because its fiscal year is almost over.

[alexxxxx]

The Wii will sell millions upon millions becuase the nintendo DS outsold the PSP becuase people in china and japan prefer new technology such as the DS touch screen.

I'm sorry..

BS ALERT

Touch Screen ain't exactly groundbreaking new technology. PDAs have had them for years and years. The DS graphics arn't exactly groundbreaking, I like the fun games though. I love my PSP for easy wireless internet and music and videos. =]

[@K]

I'm so glad now that I said I didn't want one and opted for a moped instead, which I'm getting this week lol well I will get one evetually though, I don't care when it comes out I just know I will end up with 1