The blue LED drag PS3 production next year before landing in Europe

According to foreign media reports, in September 6th, Sony Corp executives said in Tokyo, due to the next generation of video game consoles PS3 production problems, it will be delayed in Europe until next year in March. SONY also said that by the end of this year the production of 4 million game consoles will be reduced by half, to 2 million units.

Previously, there have been some news related to the disclosure of Taiwan media. 6, CEO of SONY Computer Entertainment's Ken Kutaragi told the press in Tokyo, in the early days of the listing, will be temporarily attention in Japan and the United States market, the European market time will be postponed to next March, the specific date may be early March next year. Currently, Sony Corp plans to launch the PS3 in the Japanese market in November 11th, seven days after landing in the United states.

Allegedly, when the game is on the market, the United States will get 400 thousand PS3 consoles, the Japanese market is only 100 thousand units. According to Sony Corp's plan, in November will produce 2 million games, in December production of 2 million in the first quarter of next year, the reproduction of 2 million units. Previously, Hirai Yifu, President of SONY Computer Entertainment America on the Gamespot website said that PS3 has yet to start production, is expected to be reduced to 2 million units, therefore, to the end of the production target market will be PS3 out of the question.

The same day, Kutaragi explained that Sony Corp in the production of a blu ray DVD drive components encountered problems. This problem will delay the production time by one month and reduce production by about 1 million. Prior to the Taiwan media quoted sources said, for the blue laser diode manufacturing CD-ROM Blu ray laser head production problems, in addition to the Cell processor of IBM company's supply is insufficient, the two factors will enable Sony Corp new games this year for output fell by half.

Sony Corp news makes investors deeply disappointed. Wednesday in New York stock market, Sony Corp's shares fell $1.03, or 2.4%, to close at $42.84.

Tokyo, a financial analyst James Hong said: "this seems to be the SONY PS3 the latest bad news, people look forward to this new game very, however, in Europe the opportunity sales of Christmas is indeed a pity."

PS3 game price, 60G hard disk version priced at $599, 20G hard disk version price is $499.