Sony expects to now ship 4 million units PS3 units by year end....

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VERY interesting info from Kotaku:

Sony Clarifies 2 Million PS3s Statement
I received a "clarification" from Sony Computer Entertainment America yesterday.

Apparently Kaz Hirai either misspoke or was misunderstood (my money's on misspoke) when he was quoted as saying that Sony would have 2 million PS3s ready to ship by the end of the year. What he meant to say was that Sony is still on schedule to have 2 million unites shipped by the November launch and an additional 2 million by the end of the year. Meaning a total of 4 million units.

Here's there official statement on the whole deal:

"Unfortunately Kaz Hirai's comments in the recent GameSpot interview regarding PLAYSTATION 3 production were misunderstood. We are still on schedule to ship 2 million units for our mid-November 2006 launch and additional 2 million units by the end of the year for a total of 4 million units."

I'm surprised they didn't want to clarify whether they have started producing the PS3s yet. I mean, he said they haven't and they can't be right... can it? Brian Crecente
 
Shouldn't they be making these by now to release those kind of numbers? As I recall the first 360's were made in August and we only got 300,000 in the U.S. launch.
 
[quote name='Purkeynator']Shouldn't they be making these by now to release those kind of numbers? As I recall the first 360's were made in August and we only got 300,000 in the U.S. launch.[/quote]

Well, they plan on making 2 mill (Not likely) and give U.S. 300,000. That is if the source is correct.

But I believe in order to make that many in the amount of time they have, they'll have to make around 1.2 PS3's a second.
 
yeah, but how many are going to end up in north america?

And no matter how many they ship, all of them are going to end up on ebay selling for $3,000 over retail. I'm probably going to try to get in on some of that action...
 
I highly doubt 4 million ps3's will be ready for launch day, 2 million is a more accurate number. Also, if the number of ps3's ready for shipping on launch day is around 2 million the U.S will prolly get around 500,000
 
Its always been 2 million at launch and 4 mill by years end
With a planned 6 million by march 07.

Its more then the ps2 had at launch.
 
No it's more than what was planned for the PS2. Sony has to deliver on what they say and we all know they aren't very good at that.
 
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