Sony Cuts Back Japanese PS3 Shipping Quantities
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
by Gary A. Ballard
I can't even make up another snarky comment for the title of this one. It defies description. Sony's PS3 launch in Japan just took another shoryuken to the junk. How much can one company screw up a system launch and still get raving fanbois to buy their console like a George Romero-style zombie army ?
Initially, the PS3 was supposed to launch with 500,000 units shipped on launch day. That in itself is a paltry sum, especially when you consider that in order to make that target number, they shafted the Europeon market by delaying the release of the console until next year. Of those 500,000 units, 100,000 were earmarked for Japan and 400,000 for the US. So in order to be part of the next-generation of the Sony collective, you must fight the millions of other slavering drones to get your one-of-a-kind first-gen (and thus sure to be rife with manufacturing defects) $600 entre nous into the elite.
Only now Japan's only going to get 80,000 units due to component shortages, according to this article. Such a good idea to rush that release out before the holidays, isn't it? That failure, though relatively small in the scheme of things, really makes me want to rush out and buy a PS3. After all, if they can't get enough quality components off the assembly line to make their target shipments, I'm sure there won't be any plethora of defects in the hardware they manage to ship. It isn't like Sony (or Microsoft) has a history of defects with their first-run hardware or anything.
Yes, most of the preceding paragraph was sarcasm.
Enjoy being a member of the PS3 nation, suckers.
Initially, the PS3 was supposed to launch with 500,000 units shipped on launch day. That in itself is a paltry sum, especially when you consider that in order to make that target number, they shafted the Europeon market by delaying the release of the console until next year. Of those 500,000 units, 100,000 were earmarked for Japan and 400,000 for the US. So in order to be part of the next-generation of the Sony collective, you must fight the millions of other slavering drones to get your one-of-a-kind first-gen (and thus sure to be rife with manufacturing defects) $600 entre nous into the elite.
Only now Japan's only going to get 80,000 units due to component shortages, according to this article. Such a good idea to rush that release out before the holidays, isn't it? That failure, though relatively small in the scheme of things, really makes me want to rush out and buy a PS3. After all, if they can't get enough quality components off the assembly line to make their target shipments, I'm sure there won't be any plethora of defects in the hardware they manage to ship. It isn't like Sony (or Microsoft) has a history of defects with their first-run hardware or anything.
Yes, most of the preceding paragraph was sarcasm.
Enjoy being a member of the PS3 nation, suckers.
Labels: PS3, Sony, Video Games
posted by Gary A. Ballard @ 9:23 AM
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