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Sony Postpones PlayStation 3 Release

Postby aac1416 » Mar 15th, '06, 21:38

TOKYO - Sony will put off the release of its much awaited PlayStation 3 console until November from its planned spring debut because more work is needed on its next-generation DVD technology, the company said Wednesday.


Ken Kutaragi, the head Sony's video games division, made the announcement at a hastily called news conference after reports of the delay surfaced in the business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun and other papers.

The PlayStation 3 is critical for Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news).'s profits and brand image, so the delay is a major setback for the Japanese electronics and entertainment company as it struggles to mount a recovery after several years of poor earnings.

The reports sent Sony's stock tumbling 1.8 percent to 5,470 yen ($46) Wednesday. Kutaragi announced the decision after the close of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

In the United States, however, Sony's American depositary shares rose as much as 2.2 percent and were recently up 34 cents at $46.85 on the
New York Stock Exchange, off a four-year high of about $51 from late January.

U.S. analysts said Sony's announcement likely alleviated investors' concerns that the PlayStation 3 wouldn't reach the U.S. marketplace until 2007. The new timeline means that the PlayStation 3 will hit store shelves simultaneously in Japan, North America and Europe, just in time for Christmas.

"We believe the news will come as a relief to investors who had feared that Sony would not launch the console in Japan until November, followed by a typical four- to five-month lag into the U.S. market," Brendan McCabe of CIBC World Markets wrote in a research note.

Kutaragi said Sony is still trying to finalize the copyright protection technology and other standards for the Blu-ray DVD disc, the format for PlayStation 3, and next-generation video for the company's electronics gadgets in the works.

"I'd like to apologize for the delay," Kutaragi said at a Tokyo hotel. "I have been cautious because many people in various areas are banking on the potential of the next-generation DVD."

Blu-ray preparations were initially to have been completed by last September, but now won't be finalized until next month, he said.

The delay comes at a time when competition in next-generation game consoles is heating up with U.S. software maker Microsoft Corp. already putting the
Xbox 360 on sale last year. Nintendo Co., the Japanese manufacture of Game Boy machines and Pokemon and Super Mario game software, is also planning its version called Revolution later this year.

The PlayStation series is now the dominant brand for home consoles, helping support Sony's bottom line in recent years, and controlling about 60 percent of the global market, according to Kutaragi. Sony has shipped nearly 204 million machines worldwide when combining shipments for the original PlayStation and its upgrade
PlayStation 2.

Toshiaki Nishimura, analyst for Yasuda Asset Management Co., said the delay is likely to hurt game revenue for Sony, but the announcement wasn't a big surprise for the market, which had anticipated a delay. Speculation about a possible delay had been growing in the last few months.

But further delays that could force Sony to miss Christmas entirely would be detrimental, he said.

In a research note, Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama said Sony "still has a number of obstacles to surmount before it can achieve a simultaneous global launch of PS3 in November. We will need to keep close tabs on whether any further delays emerge because postponing the launch will worsen the company's competitive position."

Nonetheless, Nishimura said, "Sony is merely at the starting point of a race." He said more time is needed to assess PlayStation 3 and the advanced gadgets that will run on the same computer chip called "cell" that Sony is developing with Toshiba Corp. and IBM Corp.

"We are even a bit relieved that Sony has definitely said it's coming out with the PS3 because that's so critical for its cell business," he said.

The PlayStation 3 console can be used as a Blu-ray DVD player, but will also read previously released PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games, Kutaragi said. It will also have a hard disk drive, broadband and wireless Internet connections, and support high-definition televisions.

The company is expecting monthly production of 1 million machines, and targeting production of 6 million units for the fiscal year through March 2007, Kutaragi said.

Any setback in the PlayStation business could deal a big blow to Sony, which had just announced in January that it will post a profit of 70 billion yen ($592 million) for the fiscal year through March, instead of sinking into a 10 billion yen ($85 million) loss, as projected earlier.

For decades, Sony symbolized Japan's manufacturing power exemplified by the original Walkman. But in recent years, the company, which also has movie and music businesses, was battered by declining electronics prices.

Sony's core electronics division has lost money for two straight fiscal years. Since Welsh-born Howard Stringer took over last year as the first foreigner to head the company, Sony has been trying to achieve a turnaround.

It's only been in recent months Sony has made a comeback in flat-panel TVs using liquid crystal displays manufactured in a joint venture with South Korean rival Samsung Electronics Co. It has also come out with Walkman MP3 digital music players to catch up with the hit iPod from Apple Computer Inc.

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060315/ap_ ... japan_sony
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Postby Ivy » Mar 15th, '06, 23:14

g_killa wrote:crys for hours

why sony why you bastards

is life still worth living :'(
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Postby Ivy » Mar 15th, '06, 23:19

g_killa wrote:^^^ words of a genius

:'(


LMAO...Don't cry...just sue Sony for causing emotional damage, these days it's possible. :smoking: :zipped:
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Postby Ivy » Mar 15th, '06, 23:21

g_killa wrote:but i dont live in usa where u can sue all for nethin


dam :'(


Hmm, that does make things a bit harder. Just write Sony a horribly nasty letter and threaten them, give a name and address of someone you hate for a return address, and let the cops take it from their... :smoking:
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Postby Ivy » Mar 15th, '06, 23:23

g_killa wrote:hmmmmmmmmmmm

but i still dont get a ps3 :'(


Yeah, but you get to threaten the company and get someone you hate in trouble and you don't get caught for any of it...
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Postby aac1416 » Mar 15th, '06, 23:24

lmao
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Postby Mr. Cookie » Mar 15th, '06, 23:26

thanks fo' the news, but give me the short summary, the short story of this...I haven't read it, it's just to much to read....
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Postby Ivy » Mar 15th, '06, 23:28

Sarah wrote:What what?! I Heard my name lol. What about me? :unsure: What are you gonna do to me? :'( lol


He's going to have you arrested for threatening a major company...lmao... ;) :p
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Postby MuNxMuN » Mar 16th, '06, 00:18

i don't really care but i think my friend's going to be pissed when i tell him tomorrow cause i think he pre ordered it since last year :p
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Postby Ivy » Mar 16th, '06, 00:22

MuNxMuN wrote:i don't really care but i think my friend's going to be pissed when i tell him tomorrow cause i think he pre ordered it since last year :p


Since last year? :confusion: how long has this been around? :confusion: I didn't even know they were making a ps3... :sweating: :unsure:
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Postby MuNxMuN » Mar 16th, '06, 00:24

where have you been taylor?? lol :p i think they announced they were making the ps3 a while ago i'm not sure. i heard about it sometime last year. :sweating:
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Postby DarkMan » Mar 16th, '06, 08:10

just read the thread and it already fkn pisses me off.....fuck!

i was waiting for games like ff7 and mgs4..bullshit!! :angry: :angry:
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Postby Neomic2006 » Apr 2nd, '06, 01:06

Well, that certainly gives me more time to save my dough and help pay for one. Since my birthday is in Nov., maybe my 'rents will pay for like $200, and I'll pay $100 on it.
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