Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Sony to delay launch of Playstation 3 until November

Any of you out there looking forward to playing with your brand new and state of the art Playstation 3 this summer are in for a nasty surprise. Sony have decided that for technical reasons they will have to postpone launching their blockbuster new games console until November.

They will thus hand Microsoft a full year lead with the Xbox 360. That may even be enough to give the Redmond folk time to build a following strong enough to make them the firm No2 in the games console market.

But somehow I doubt it. The Playstation has such a huge following and the Playstation 3 is so talked about and so technically impressive that I can't help but conclude that the market may wait. But then again, handing Microsoft this kind of marketing lead is like handing a kid a granade - very, very dangerous.

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