سوني: "قد لا نستطيع شحن مليوني PS3 قبل نهاية السنة"

[NSider]

سوني تلمح أنها قد لا تستطيع شحن مليوني PS3 قبل نهاية السنة

Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year's shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive. Sony plans to ship two million PlayStation 3 players this year to the U.S. and Japan, and six million worldwide by March. The Tokyo-based company said yesterday annual profit would fall 39 percent to its lowest in five years on price cuts of the console in Japan and a recall of 9.6 million computer batteries.
``The honest answer is it's more of a target'' for PlayStation 3 shipments, Jack Tretton, co-chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said yesterday in an interview. ``Clearly we've had production issues.''
A shortage of the PlayStation 3 would give Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. a bigger head start in the $20 billion console market when they sell their players next month in time for the year's biggest sales season. Sony cut the price of the PS3 in Japan after consumers complained it was too expensive compared with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii.
``It would be a big hill to climb with a console that costs twice as much,'' said John Broady, an analyst for GameSpot.com, a unit of Cnet Networks Entertainment that tracks video-game sales. ``A lot of this is driven by mothers. When they look at their budget, I think the Wii is going to be very attractive.''
Shares of Sony fell 0.2 percent to 4,780 yen as of 12:35 p.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, against a 0.4 percent advance in the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average.
Laser Parts
The PlayStation 3 will retail for at least $500, while a basic Xbox 360 model from Microsoft sells for $300. Nintendo is releasing its Wii console at $250.
Sony said in September that it would cut the 2006 rollout for the PlayStation 3 from four million to two million units and delayed the console's European introduction four months. The company said at the time it still expected to reach its original target of six million units by March.
The company said at the time it couldn't make enough blue diode lasers, the key components of the Blu-ray player. A Blu-ray disc can store at least five times more than the 4.7 gigabyte standard DVD, enabling high-definition game graphics and movies.
Earnings Outlook
Net income for the year ending March 31 will drop 35 percent to 80 billion yen ($675 million) from a year earlier, Sony said. Losses at the game division will be wider than Sony expected because of the PlayStation 3 price cut and slower sales of the PlayStation Portable. About 60 billion yen of operating profit will be erased from the division, the company said.
Tretton spoke in an interview at Sony's ``Gamers Day,'' an event in San Francisco designed to showcase PlayStation 3's capabilities. Sony will release more than 20 game titles for the console during the holiday season. Titles include ``Resistance: Fall of Man'' and ``Genji: Days of the Blade.''
Publishers including Electronic Arts Inc. and Activision Inc., the two largest makers of video games, are developing titles for the PlayStation 3.
Microsoft has shipped 5 million Xbox 360 consoles since it was introduced in November 2005 and expects to sell 10 million by the end of the year, said spokeswoman Molly O'Donnell. Nintendo plans to sell 4 million units of the Wii by year's end, the company said in September.

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جاك تريتون يقول أن الأرقام اللي أصرت عليها سوني لما أعلنت تأجيل اللنش الأوربي للـPS3 هي مجرد هدف، ويلمح أن مشاكل الجهاز التصنيعية تخلي المهمة صعبة جداً.


وينك يا محمد؟ 🙂

وفي خبر جانبي، سوني تمنع الأوربيين من استيراد الـPS3 عن طريق Lik-Sang بأمر من المحكمة العليا في بريطانيا:

UK High Court rules that sales of Japanese PSPs to the region are illegal - expected to follow suit with the PS3

European gamers have been dealt yet another blow by Sony. After being informed that they would have to wait until March 2007 to receive the PS3, followed by being European VP Jamie MacDonald's assertation that they "didn't mind waiting" for the console, the UK High Court has granted Sony a judgement that could set a nasty precedent for those hoping to avoid the wait by buying a PS3 from another country.

The UK High Court has ruled that the online importer Lik-Sang's sales of Japanese versions of the Playstation Portable to the UK and European Economic Area are illegal. While gamers might not fret over this, it does set a rather bold precident for Sony to request a similar ruling preventing the import of their "soon to be released" (in North America and Japan) Playstation3 console. Lik-Sang's marketing manager, Pascal Clarysse, was clearly annoyed by the ruling.

"Fighting multiple lawsuits in different countries at the same time and paying high premiums to expensive lawyers is an overwhelming situation for a small company like Lik-Sang. Launching separate court actions with separate claims and different judges is completely unnecessary, except for the fact that it helps reaching one single target: outspend Lik-Sang to death. 'Pay Beyond.'"

Lik-Sang is currently exploring its legal options; but with this recent ruling against them adding to eBay's tightening restrictions on pre-order sales, European gamers may not see the Playstation3 through any channels until the official launch next spring.

 

[king zell]

مع تحيات اللنش الأسطوري للبلاي ستيشن3 ..


يعني بننزل أعداد قليلة .. و بنسحب عالأوروبيين بعد الوعود.. و بنستخدم المحاكم عشان ما يلمسون جهازنا بأي طريقة.. قمة في الإبداع

 

[Mario2]

تحس كل شوي يبينون لنا مدى تعثر خطوات الجهاز .. يا اخي دام كل هالمشاكل .. يوفرون كميه كبيره بالاول ولو حتى على حساب هالسنه المهم يكون متوفر على الجميع ويصدرونه بيوم وشهر معينين من السنه القادمه ..

العاب اللنش الله يعينها ..

 

[Solid Snake]

لنش البلاي3 فعلا رايح فيها .. فيه مشاكل كبيرة ..

سوني مو عارفة تضبط وضعها صح!! .. لنش سيئ بمعنى الكلمة ..

 

[الــخــــارق]

في النهاية كل هالكلام = لا تشترون الـ PS3 الا بعد 6 أشهر على الأقل ..

 

[Humam]

لا جديد. عادة حليمة لعادتها القديمة, كلمة " لنش " ماتجتمع على خير مع كلمة " سوني ".. أنا مدري مين الخطير إلي كان متوقع لنش بأعداد هائلة.. أحلى شي يوم سوني تقول ان اللنش ربيع 2006.. واحنا صدقنا لول.

موعدنا مارس 2007.. فيرتشوا تنس 1080p وأونلاين وتكسير رؤوس + فرتشوا فايتر 5 + هيفنلي سورد + رزستنس !! بس القهر إن مارس بيكون في وقت كئيب من السنة.. رمضان والله إنك أحلى شهر 🙁