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Saturday, May 13 2006

Playstation 3 not out until 2007?  by James B at 19:28

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The Inquirer has an interesting little article, that claims that Sony was infact presenting dev-kits to the E3 audiences - and the console itself was just an empty case. An insider source claims that the PS3 will not see light of day until Q2 of 2007.

If this is true Sony will have most likely have an uphill struggle to claim a next-gen audience.

The source claims that the fall launch is just hitting Christmas with a number of titles, but with real console unavailability (can you say: paper launch?), which is guaranteed to piss distributors off and just about turns a lot of the market to the Microsoft side. Real availability is expected at the mid Q2 2007, right about the time of E3 2007.
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malis
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13 May 2006 19:29
How the mighty have fallen :/
bogie
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13 May 2006 19:40
It seems to be too little too late.... for too much money! IMO.
Stan
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13 May 2006 19:47
I have never been a sony fan as most of you know, over hyped over priced shite for the most part, and to me it looks like the ps3 wont be a exception.
Felon
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13 May 2006 20:06
Something to do with the not so overwhelmimng response at E3 maybe?
Tricky
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13 May 2006 20:17
According to an Activision employee we talked to on the showfloor, Sony was having some serious firmware issues with the PS3 dev kits at E3. According to the representative at the booth, at one point firmware updates for the PS3 dev kits were being sent out every two hours at because the units kept crashing. I witnessed this myself at the SOE booth when I played Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. The game literally took 3 to 4 minutes to load the E3 demo, and had to be rebooted once. How true the firmware update claim is we cannot say, we can only report what was told to us, so take is as such.

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ralinn
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13 May 2006 21:43
Hopefully this is the time for nintendo to rise up and destroy the noobies
Bigbird
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13 May 2006 22:27
i second that
Re0sLess
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13 May 2006 22:45
third

looks like this consol war is just geting intresting.
Bambers
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14 May 2006 02:03
This November was pushing it really, they're going to do something special if it's nearly a whole year away still.
ralinn
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14 May 2006 16:26
Hmm, I made a bet on it coming out in 2007... someone o's me money...
KingKennedy
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14 May 2006 16:33
Nintendo wont though will they, all the chavs/idiots will buy the PS3 regardless.
ralinn
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14 May 2006 16:45
Yeah, true. Shame really.
Bigbird
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14 May 2006 19:59
Seph|roth
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14 May 2006 16:33
Nintendo wont though will they, all the chavswill buy the PS3 regardless.


I agree with this statement if you replace buy with steal
Bambers
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15 May 2006 21:52
Bah errored.

This November was pushing it really, they're going to have* to do something special if it's nearly a whole year away still.


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