[retired_Rynny]

march isnt 100% confirmed, iirc there was an interview with a sony guy who said they still may miss the march european launch due to shortages.

[retired_derek]

Originally posted by Shonte:

Always going to be teething problems. At least they are working on fixes for them.

Yes, but Sony made a big thing of how their console was able to play all games out of the box, and they wouldnt need to make customers download any patches to play the game out of the box. Made a big thing of how Microsoft doing this was scandalous and how great they were.

[retired_derek]

Oh and this was interesting i thought

Bloomberg: Sony missed PS3 ship targets
Analysts surveyed say number of launch PlayStation 3s available in US was "even lower than expected"; Sony says it shipped as many as possible.
By Tim Surette, GameSpot
Posted Nov 21, 2006 10:45 pm GMT
Many gamers who have been searching desperately for a PlayStation 3 since the console's launch in North America on November 17 have come up empty-handed. A combination of high demand and low supply has resulted in nationwide sellouts of the console, many stores exhausting their initial supplies within minutes.

Gamers winced when Sony announced that only 400,000 units would be up for grabs in North America on launch day, but according to Bloomberg, even that number may have been optimistic.

Several industry analysts have come forward with the belief that Sony may have missed its shipment target by as much as 50 percent. Retail expert SooAnn Roberts told Bloomberg she believes that Sony won't ship more than 200,000 PS3s to North America by the end of the year. Other analysts predicted a similar shortfall prior to the console's launch last week.

Todd Mitchell of Kaufman Bros. Equity Research said the number of PS3s at launch was "even lower than expected," says Bloomberg. The news service also claims that several other analysts echo Mitchell's sentiments.

Sony representatives told Bloomberg, "We shipped as many PlayStation 3 units into the North American market as possible and continue our efforts in supplying systems to retailers nationwide through the holidays." The rep went on to claim that Sony is planning to ship 1 million PS3s to the US by the end of the year. Sony has previously said that it plans on shipping 2 to 2.4 million PS3s worldwide by 2007.

[retired_Rynny]

with 50% or more of them on ebay tbh.

[retired_derek]

what gets me is the fact that Microsoft and Nintendo both were honest during the course of their respective launches. Admiting that they were stretched, acknowledging the situation.

Sony have lied and deflected and done everything they can to try and make out how much better theres is yet totally made a mess over it.

[retired_superpenners]

Well, I'll be fitting a 250 gig SATA drive to my PS3 then as soon as I get it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BkM9wiZePfs

60 gig is for wimps!!

[retired_superpenners]

Reading 'elsewhere' that if you take a look at the Resistance: Fall of Man disc, if you strip out all of the FMV (theres about 30 500Mb AVI files) the actual game code is about 3 gig including the level data!!

So while it sits on an 18 gig blu-ray disc, theres not an awful lot of game there. Just cut scenes.

[retired_swtpe14]

when does ps3 come out in Europe?

[retired_barbie34]

the actual game code is about 3 gig including the level data!!

So while it sits on an 18 gig blu-ray disc, theres not an awful lot of game there

3 gig game is now considered "not an awful lot"

[retired_superpenners]

ARF! When you put it like that yeah, but it didnt have to go on a blu-ray disc if it wasn't for the FMV I mean!!!