Sony delays European PlayStation 3 launch
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Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday it   would delay the European launch of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game   machine to March from November due to inadequate supply of a   key component, missing the critical Christmas shopping season.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) will launch its  PlayStation 3 with an 80-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drive on June  16 in South Korea for 518,000 won ($556), offering the upgraded  version of its latest game console for the first time ever, the  Japanese electronics conglomerate said.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T shares opened 2.38   percent lower at 4,930 yen on Thursday after it said it would   delay the European launch of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game   machine to March from November, missing the holiday shopping   season in a key market.
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Gamers in Europe will have to wait a bit longer than expected to get their hands on the PlayStation 3, with Sony announcing that production glitches have pushed back the launch of its next-generation console until March 2007.
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Sony Corp. said on Friday it will eliminate a key microchip from the European version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, reducing production costs as well as its compatibility with PS2 games.
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Sony shareholders shouldn't be pleased about another PlayStation 3 delay.
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Management shuffle won't prevent it, apparently Panic ye not - you will have the opportunity to spend hours in the freezing cold queueing overnight to get your hands on a PlayStation 4, risking a cap in the a**, a Sony executive has revealed, but not before 2010. Just as well - Europeans haven't got their hands on the PS3 yet, let alone its successor, and won't until March 2007.â¦
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'Within 12 months' Sony has yet to launch the PlayStation 3 in Europe but already one analyst is forecasting a first-year price cut which will see at least â¬150 knocked off the â¬599 launch price.â¦
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VoIP on your console The launch of a version of Skype running on Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) will still go ahead in Europe and the US later this month, despite a delay affecting the software's Japanese roll-out.â¦
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TOKYO -- Sony's upgrade video-game console PlayStation 3 will be delayed until March in Europe, but will go on sale in November as planned in the U.S. and Japan, the executive in charge of the project said Wednesday.
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TOKYO -- The European version of Sony's PlayStation 3 will run only some of the games designed for the previous generation of the video game machine _ a move designed to cut costs and speed up production.
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It&#39;s another black eye for Sony. After closing its online music store in August, news comes that the entertainment giant is delaying the opening of its online community for  the PlayStation 3.
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No-show at 9am as promised Amazon.co.uk disappointed eager buyers today when its pledge to begin offering its entire launch allocation of 60GB PlayStation 3 consolea to pre-order customers first thing this morning went awry. The firm was supposed to start taking advance orders for the PS3 from 9am this morning, but the sale didn't commence until 1:35pm.â¦
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Music and movie joy Sony has confirmed that the next release of the PlayStation 3 firmware, version 1.9, will be available in the US "in the next few days". It's already been released to Japanese console owners, and will almost certainly come to Europe shortly.â¦
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Sony  said on Wednesday it is  delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype  Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users in Japan  due to technical problems.
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The release of Sony's PlayStation 3 will be delayed in Europe until March because of problems with producing a key component, the executive in charge of the project said Wednesday. The much-awaited update to the popular game console will go on sale in November in the United States and Japan as planned, but fewer units will be available for the launch dates.
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Sony Corp. shares have fallen as investors reacted nervously to news that the eagerly awaited launch of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console in Europe will be delayed from November to March.