Sony delays PS3 "Home", but no talk of price cuts
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would postpone the launch of the "Home" virtual community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early next year, the latest setback in its videogame battle with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd.
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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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'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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TOKYO -- 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 yesterday. 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 ...
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Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday it   would delay the European launch of its PlayStation 3 (PS3)   video game console by about four months to March and cut its   target for shipments this year by half.
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The finished version of Home for the PlayStation 3 is expected in the fall, and a full beta in April, but there's something to look at now.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) is on track  to have shipped 2 million PlayStation 3s to North American  stores by the end of March, and expects shortages of the video  game console to have completely eased by May, a top executive  said on Tuesday.
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In yet another embarrassing delay for Sony, the company is putting off the start of its "Home" virtual world services for the PlayStation 3, initially planned for later this year, until next spring.
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Way back on September 11 we reported on rumors that Sony would be releasing a $400 40GB PS3/'Spider-Man 3' Blu-ray bundle for the holidays and the not-so-secret new system has now been officially announced by Sony, with a November 2nd launch date in the N
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Any hope from Sony that its fortunes were turning around with the PlayStation 3 were dashed Tuesday as data showed it was falling further behind the Nintendo Wii in sales on its home turf.
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Sony will neither confirm nor deny rumors that it's phasing out 80GB PS3 and ditching backward compatibility.
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Sony Corp. said on Thursday it sees no  need to change its target to ship 2 million units of its  PlayStation 3 game console worldwide by the end of December and  6 million by the end of next March.
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Sony decides not to cut the price of PlayStation 3 in Europe and instead offers a bundle pack with games.
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An analyst writes... It may take another four years for the Sony PlayStation 3's sales to catch up with those of Nintendo's Wii, a games market analyst has claimed.â¦
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Sony Corp (6758.T) said on  Thursday it would postpone the launch of the &quot;Home&quot; virtual  community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early  next year, the latest setback in its videogame battle with  Microsoft Corp  and Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS).
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Sony Corp. will lower the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console, Kyodo News agency reported Friday, as competition heats up in next-generation gaming between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) plans to  phase out the cut-priced $499 model of its PlayStation 3 video  game machine, leaving only a higher capacity $599 model for  sale in the United States, the company said on Monday.