November 13, 2006

Japanese Playstation 3 Launch

Due to a production problems of the blue lazer diode, Sony had to scale back its launch of the Playstation 3 to only 100,000 units. Media reports that Sony sold 88,400 units in the first two days with Ridge Racer and Mobile Suit Gundam being the biggest software winners at 30,000 each. Auction sites are reportedly seeing PS3s go for 4 times the launch price. If I was a software developer, I would be very upset at these meager launch volumes. Software guys need at least 1 million units to be considered a success and at these hardware launch numbers, that simple isn't going to happen.