Sony: PS3 released worldwide in November 06

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At Tokyo's 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing Sony Computer Entertainment have announced that they are delaying the release of their long-awaited PlayStation 3 console till November due to technical difficulties.

Despite not providing a more detailed release date, the company have said they will ship one million units per month after the launch and plan to have produced six million PS3s before the end of 2006. Not only will the unit be completely backwards compatible, but will rely on a 60GB Linux-based hard drive unit which Sony is now reporting may or may not be included in the box.

Ken Kuturagi, Sony's PlayStation guru, said: "The hardware was developed with the hard disk in mind."

Sony also let slip their plans for the online element of their new console, which will be free to play via the "basic" package and include community tools such as a lobby matching, voice chat and commerce features incorporating software bootable directly from the PS3's hard drive.

Games will come in the form of Blu-ray in the hope to minimise piracy, though the machine will of course play movie DVDs and PS2 DVDs. SCE also said that developers will get their hands on the console's software development kit (SDK) not in June as first announced, but July.

The news marks the first time Sony plan a global release for their PlayStation hardware.

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Last Updated: 16 March, 09.25 GMT

(8 replies) #1 Jolidog on 15 Mar 2006 - 09:55

Nice...! At least is coming....

#1.1 AMDMEFX-55 on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:29

OMFG I can get a free PS3 just click the AD above HOLY CRAP.

#1.2 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:17

haha

#1.3 fdlazarte on 15 Mar 2006 - 17:13

bwahahahahaha

#1.4 Sir Gawain on 15 Mar 2006 - 19:55

Too bad it looks like a waffle iron (The AD).

#1.5 Code Red on 16 Mar 2006 - 02:59

Heh, wrong PS3!
IPB Image

Look: http://games.tiscali.cz/specials/zaoponou14/ps3.jpg

#1.6 strekship on 16 Mar 2006 - 04:22

Anyone else here think that the picture looks like a toaster?

#1.7 SecretAgentMan on 16 Mar 2006 - 12:13

I like toast.

#1.8 chainsaw_007 on 17 Mar 2006 - 16:11

yea, it looks like a toster alright!

#2 ShadowPHP on 15 Mar 2006 - 09:56

Woohooo!

#3 DJ Prem on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:01

OMG its being released on my bday

(7 replies) #4 Ksg on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:14

Yay! you can tell Sony has been thinking and planning this thing

#4.1 scyphe on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:36

Yeah, they planned all the problems, delays, misjudgements etc.

And sending SDK's to devs in June. That's just so late it's not even funny.

#4.2 Black on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:40

Why would you plan technical difficulties?

#4.3 Ksg on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:05

I mean for the future, Microsoft did a poor job with the shipments imsure Sony have planned the PS3 shipping and have learned from the mistakes of Microsoft.

#4.4 rIaHc3 on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:16

I mean for the future, Microsoft did a poor job with the shipments imsure Sony have planned the PS3 shipping and have learned from the mistakes of Microsoft.

Microsoft also planned/promised shipments and look; they didnt meet them 100%. Stop riding Sony's dick.

#4.5 theh0g on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:47

And sending SDK's to devs in June. That's just so late it's not even funny.

SDKs are out, just not final, so the development on PS3 games has already started.

#4.6 threedaysdwn on 16 Mar 2006 - 05:13

Did you notice they're planning to ship fewer PS3s in 2006 than Microsoft shipped Xbox 360s in 2005?

And the chances of them meeting their estimates are probably very low.

#4.7 shao on 16 Mar 2006 - 13:02

remember, sony are very rarely truthful at press conferences. No matter how good the news sounds, it probably wont come true. The delays are certainly not because of them better planning the launch - as in making sure there are enough units to go round - but more because of the continuing difficulties they've had across the board with getting the hardware finalised, and moved in to production. Looking at what microsoft has been doing has been part of their strategy - wait and see - because xbox live on xbox1 was far superior to anything sony even dreamt was possible in that generation they clearly wanted to see what ms achieved with x360 so they could copy / steal / build on the good work. It will be interesting to see if they can get the backend infrastructure to be up to the same excellent level of xbox live though.

yes, i've negative about sony. But equally, i want them to come out with a good console, with good games and services, that lives up to the continuing hype/tripe that ken keeps coming out with.

(2 replies) #5 alsheron on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:16

Is 6 months really enough time for developers to be able to write good stuffs? I don't think so..... The games will probably be "challenged".....

#5.1 macrosslover on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:22

they have been developing longer than 6 months....

#5.2 scyphe on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:37

yes, they've developed for a long time in "approximated" environments, but without a chance to check performance, compatibility and stability.

(1 reply) #6 cowabunga on 15 Mar 2006 - 10:50

you think that game pad will come flying back at you if you try to throw it away?

#6.1 dukelion on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:36

I reckon it'll probably be scrapped...

#7 Orange on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:07

YES YES YES boys get ready for the PS3

Also 60GB, yes!

(2 replies) #8 Septimus on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:30

Why aren't my comments appearing? Test...

This is ****ing me off. Third time crap site.

"Sony boss Ken Kutaragi has confirmed plans for a worldwide release of PlayStation 3 in "early November" at a press conference in Tokyo" end quote.

Short, short version. They have confirmed 'plans' to do this and that. I can confirm my 'plans' to fly to the moon next week. Take it with a pinch of salt and wait for E3 to get hardware news, then November for them to put the release back to 2007. Not a hater, also want a PS3, just don't believe anything they say anymore.

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#8.1 theyarecomingforyou on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:05

If you put a quote in your comment it won't show... it's a bug in the comments system.

#8.2 chainsaw_007 on 17 Mar 2006 - 16:20

with all the set backs (delays) i hope ps3 will be better then X360, seeing how Sony waited to steel/get/make ideas from the release of x360, i really can't wait for the ps3 to be released, but then again i can't really trust Sony anymore, because they coutinue to to delay the ps3.

(2 replies) #9 asellus on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:37

So it has a HDD.

The price surely will going at least US499.00.

You hear it from me first.

#9.1 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:18

Yeah it's going to be steep.

#9.2 xMorpheousx416 on 15 Mar 2006 - 18:34

I thought the price was going to be well above that??? Last it was brought up here was somewhere above the $800.00 US range?

#10 Inplode on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:41

grats to sony if they can pull it off but ill belive that when i see them in the stores

#11 balupton on 15 Mar 2006 - 11:56

Man 6months the developers will have with the sdk, but then you'll need to take 1 or 2 months away because the games will start getting published so many months before the release.
The ps3 will have some buggy and glitchy games at launch

(6 replies) #12 quintesse on 15 Mar 2006 - 12:02

A "linux based hard drive"? What the heck does that mean?

#12.1 Timmah on 15 Mar 2006 - 12:49

"In total, it will be 60GB big, be completely upgradeable, and support Linux OS. Additionally, the peripheral will act as a home server and allow users to store various forms of media to be pulled up elsewhere." - ps3.ign.com

#12.2 Smigit on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:07

"it will be 60GB Big"

Ign - Journalism at it's finest

#12.3 Buttus on 15 Mar 2006 - 17:28

if they were smart, they'd make it mod'able.... they'd sell so many more of them if you could do something useful with it also....

#12.4 Mathiasdm on 15 Mar 2006 - 17:57

You can run Linux on it... I'm sure that'll allow for a lot of things ;-)

#12.5 Audhumla on 15 Mar 2006 - 20:12

Mmmm, Linux support out of the box...

#12.6 Joel on 16 Mar 2006 - 02:22

if they were smart, they'd make it mod'able.... they'd sell so many more of them if you could do something useful with it also....

They already throw in everything AND the kitchen sink. How much more useful does it need to be?

(2 replies) #13 Gowcra on 15 Mar 2006 - 12:29

Goodie

im looking forward to this, but with all major things that big companies release, i will wait at least a year, so all bug and kinks are worked out.

#13.1 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:18

AND for the price to be cut in half!

#13.2 chainsaw_007 on 17 Mar 2006 - 17:45

yea, waiting would be the smart thing to do!

(5 replies) #14 Mojo on 15 Mar 2006 - 12:30

Xbox 360:

Final Dev-Kits - August 2005
Launch - November 2005

PS3:

Final Cell/RSX Kits - April 2006
Final Dev-Kits (with BR/controller) - June 2006
Launch - November 2006

Developers will have more time with the final PS3 kits than they did with the 360 kits. So don't be freakin hypocrites.

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#14.1 jmole on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:42

I don't think some people here realize that developers don't need final kits to work on games.

#14.2 Mojo on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:25

I know. How else would PS3 games already be thus far in development...

#14.3 dagamer34 on 15 Mar 2006 - 18:02

The Xbox 360 is heavily based on the XNA development platform, so it really isn't that hard to port something to the 360, if you already have a running version on the Xbox or PC.

I'm still quite skeptical on a worldwide launch. You'd need to produce at least 1 million units in each of the 3 major territories to not have massive shortages and that's really doubtful coming from Sony. I mean, they said the same thing for th PSP and look how that turned up for North America and Europe!! 3-7 month wait!

#14.4 SMeK on 15 Mar 2006 - 20:53

june was before august last time i checked

#14.5 threedaysdwn on 17 Mar 2006 - 00:34

Mojo - that's true. Though developers had ALPHA and BETA kits for the 360 much earlier than they did with PS3 kits. The Xbox 360's launch was done a bit differently though. In order to get out EARLY with a large assortment of games, the initial games don't come close to using the system's full power.

The PS3's initial games will probably be better optimized for the system (especially graphically) than the initial 360 games were.

However, you'll notice that Sony is planning to ship far fewer PS3 in 2006 than Microsoft shipped Xbox 360s in 2005.

And you thought the 360 shortage was bad.

(1 reply) #15 Johnus on 15 Mar 2006 - 12:39

kOOL cAn not wait its gonna be awsome

#15.1 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:19

Yeah I bet it's going to be cool. I can't wait to see it in person!!

#16 Beastage on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:13

Microsoft can release the next xbox by then.....

(4 replies) #17 Netrack on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:20

so a 60 gig hard drive that you can put linux on? seems like this is a gateway for a mod chip

#17.1 kezzzs on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:44

I was just about to post nearly the opposite. I think it's a very clever tactic to delay people hacking it to run linux on it. People are trying to hack the XBox 360 to run linux on it and a byproduct of doing that is also being able to run "backups". What i'm saying is that people that are just trying to get linux running on it won't have to bother so therefore won't be spending their time hacking it

#17.2 markjensen on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:29

You didn't have to "hack" the PS2 to put Linux on it. Sony sold Linux kits for it in the past. link

Sony's support of Open Source or Linux is only as it suits them. They are very fond of proprietary hardware and formats. Still, it is nice to see this.

#17.3 kezzzs on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:21

But wasn't the ps2 hacked before the linux kit was announced?

My point was that there are a lot of people working on breaking hte security of the 360 becuase they'd like to see linux on it. Sony are releasing the PS3 with the capability of linux so all the people that might have been working to find a buffer overflow or some way of defeating the security system won't be bothering leaving just a few hardcore modders who will try hacking it to play backups or copies.

#17.4 markjensen on 15 Mar 2006 - 20:54

But wasn't the ps2 hacked before the linux kit was announced?

Hmmm... I'm not sure on that one.

(3 replies) #18 neufuse on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:21

[quote]The news marks the first time Sony plan a global release for their PlayStation hardware.
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And everyone said it was stupid when Microsoft did it...

#18.1 Mojo on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:36

Well Microsoft didn't have enough units, so it was.

#18.2 rIaHc3 on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:19

Who says Sony has/is gonna have enough units??

#18.3 Mojo on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:23

I do. I have a time machine. Oh, also Sony, mang.

#19 cork1958 on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:38

Cool! That much longer to save up for it for the kid.

#20 advancedboy on 15 Mar 2006 - 13:56

hmm... seeing as Sony is basically asking me to install kubuntu 6.10 on their PS3... might have to get one...

#21 VikingStorm on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:26

Interesting, Sony is basically marketing it as a computer system.

(2 replies) #22 obsolete_power on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:32

Xbox 360, I suggest you start packin'. The PS3 will blow you out of the water!! Not that I am surprised, Microsoft has never done what people wanted. They only do things to maximize their own profit. The only good thing about them is that their price is slightly lower than Sony's but that remains to be seen come the PS3 launch.

#22.1 rIaHc3 on 15 Mar 2006 - 19:32

Although just by including a HD requirment for PS3 games i suspect that it will do better than the Xbox 360, please get off Sony's dick. You can't compare something that exist to something that doesnt exist.

#22.2 DJROrion on 16 Mar 2006 - 17:37

Not to mention this may cost double what the 360 costs. 800 for a game console? Ill pass thanks.

(4 replies) #23 obsolete_power on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:37

Xbox 360 will be long forgotten by then which should give Sony the upper hand, not that they need it anyway. I think the 360 was a sorry console anyway and this is funny because I never like playstation. I always preferred the Xbox due to the fact that when Xbox 1 came out PS2 was already about 2 years old and had pretty crappy graphics but this time Sony and game developers finally have a chance to make Microsoft eat their dust and show them who the expert in gaming consoles really is, especially with this delay!

#23.1 ahhell on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:18

Where is the proof that developers are actually working on games for the PS3? Has anyone released screen shots or videos of games that are in developement? NO.

Where's YOUR proof that Sony is going to kill Microsoft?

Fanboys

#23.2 Smit on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:14

It's obvious that games are being worked on. You can just write the PC version and then port it.

There is no proof that Sony is going to "kill" Microsoft however.

#23.3 rIaHc3 on 15 Mar 2006 - 19:34

Like my post said above:

Although just by including a HD requirment for PS3 games i suspect that it will do better than the Xbox 360, please get off Sony's dick. You can't compare something that exist to something that doesnt exist.

#23.4 Kushan on 16 Mar 2006 - 05:00

Unreal Tourney 3 has been running on PS3 compatible hardware for some time now...

(3 replies) #24 American Ninja on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:38

oh yeah the 360 just got owned!!!!!

#24.1 Stebet on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:55

Owned indeed because when the PS3 will MAYBE FINALLY be released next November, i have been enjoying my hi-def, next-gen graphics for almost a year before people that decided to ignore the 360 and wait for PS3

#24.2 rIaHc3 on 15 Mar 2006 - 19:36

Owned? How did it get owned? Releasing (the PS3) after about a year after the Xbox 360? You need to stop playing CS or at least look up what owned means....

#24.3 plastikaa on 15 Mar 2006 - 20:26

dude rIaHc3 whats with the constant negative comments, okay you obviosuly dont like the PS but really just dont bother reading these posts.

#25 sting3r on 15 Mar 2006 - 14:42

"Pwned" is the Gentlemens term

(7 replies) #26 Wolvereen on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:10

THe article title might be a misnomer...

From Shacknews.com

Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that the console will see a six month delay, putting the Japanese release around November 2006. The stated reason for the delay is difficulty in finalizing the system's Blu-ray copy protection.

Given Sony's traditionally long launch windows, as well as the company's recent denial that it is planning a simultaneous launch, as well as the general difficulties in bringing enough highly anticipated hardware to bear in multiple major territories, it seems safe to assume that if in fact PS3 does see a November release in Japan, North America and Europe will not be seeing it until 2007 Given Nintendo's insistance that it will be releasing Revolution in time for Thanksgiving in North America, this would mean that Sony's console will be the last major player to market in its generation.

Source for article: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=15354

#26.1 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:20

This would be disappointing.

#26.2 Mojo on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:26

Umm, that was before the official announcement, so their assumption is incorrect.

#26.3 selphj on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:37

Dude the gamesindustry.biz article is out of date. Sony has announced launching Nov 06 for Japan, NA and Europe just today. Actually doing it is another story but we'll see. Knowing Sony, they'll probably delay the NA launch to 07 anyway. But this delay isn't good news for Sony that's for sure.

#26.4 Timmah on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:53

The article is correct, the PS3 is planned for a global launch in November.

Your source is out of date.

#26.5 Ryster092 on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:58

All Sony have done is confirm plans to launch the console in November, just as they had "plans" to ship it in Spring 06. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it slipped again to next year.

#26.6 Timmah on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:06

Agree but this is by far the most detailed information yet on the release date of the console.

#26.7 Laser_iCE on 16 Mar 2006 - 08:35

Ryster092 - November is Spring for those that count -- those in .au

#27 McG on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:17

Finally! Some definite news!

#28 fugazi26 on 15 Mar 2006 - 15:29

Yea what about that price tag. I couldnt even see this coming anywhere near the $400 dollar range.

#29 Munki on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:04

Ohh yeah. /drools

#30 lunamonkey on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:19

This will sit nicely next to my 360 (y) Can't wait.

#31 Subaru on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:25

Ohhh yeah
I am SO getting one

(1 reply) #32 MrA on 15 Mar 2006 - 16:30

Anyone remember when Sony said the PS3 won't contain a HDD and everyone was complaining and saying how the 360 will. Now the 360 doesn't contain a HDD (standard) and the PS3 does.

And I think it's nice it will have linux on it. But how well will it run? Is nvidia gonna provide a driver? Will we be able to put our own distro on it? Will changes made for the PS3 be sent upstream? What desktop environment? Will apps make use of the SPEs? What software will it have (media players, web browsers, etc)? So many questions.

#32.1 Ryster092 on 15 Mar 2006 - 22:39

The cut down "core" version of the Xbox 360 is not the standard version. The standard version is called the Xbox 360 and it comes with the hard drive.

Also I dont think that anyone has said it will be a fully useable Linux in the sense everyone is expecting. Maybe Linux will be the underlying operating system of the console?

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