January 10, 2006
Playstation 3 Likely to be Delayed
It looks increasingly likely that Sony is going to delay the launch of the Playstation 3. The hardware doesn't seem to be ready and certainly the games aren't ready as we hear from sources the dev kits are immature and not enough in number. Intuition says if PS3 was close to ready to go, why did Sony barely mention it at CES and how come there was nothing but pre-rendered demos?
If Sony fixes the bugs tomorrow, due to the time it takes to push a spin through the fabs, you won't see final PS3 silicon until March, April for boards and consoles in small quantities. Add another month for ramp up, and you are talking May for availability if absolutely nothing goes wrong.
Sources have told us that this rosy scenario is at odds with the work going on right now, expect debugging to go on for quite a while yet. Add minimum 4 months to the end date, and you have a possible release time. The long and short of it is, don't expect a PS3 before E3, and even that is a very long stretch.
