More bad news for PS3 launch?
- Thread starter nelg
- Start date
I think the more relevant discussion is what is the larger status of blue diode production. At first Sony said that they had 'resolved' the production issue with the diodes but the hints now about these shipments shrinking makes it seem they havent really solved anything and that diode production is what it is for the time being.
So the questions I'd like to see answered are...
What is diode production NOW relative to what it was when Sony said it was 'broke'?
What are they projecting the improvements to production will be over the next 12 months?
No amount of planes, trains, or trucks is going to solve the diode issue, thats the core of all this.
So the questions I'd like to see answered are...
What is diode production NOW relative to what it was when Sony said it was 'broke'?
What are they projecting the improvements to production will be over the next 12 months?
No amount of planes, trains, or trucks is going to solve the diode issue, thats the core of all this.
Last edited by a moderator:
Though I agree about wanting to know the state of diode production, the 20k figure reduction doesn't seem to suggest the problem isn't 'fixed' as Sony said it was. The US figure is still 400k, so US+Japan = 480k versus the original 500k. It seem unlikely that the diode problem has cost only 20k, and when you consider they're launching in Hong Kong+Taiwan at the same time, it seem liely that it's the same 500k launch figure just spread a little wider. They're probably still on for their revised revised launch figures, and maybe, fingers crossed, that means their revised expectations for production are somewhere in the realm of accurate.
I guess we'll know in 3 to 4 weeks, when we here about stock replenishment figures.
It's quite possible that they just decided they wanted to send more units to developers, reviewers, and demo stations. 
20k is not an unimportant fraction of the PS3 launch titles, but only because the launch is so meager. Numerically, however, that many units is negligible and can be the result of any number of minor adjustments.
20k is not an unimportant fraction of the PS3 launch titles, but only because the launch is so meager. Numerically, however, that many units is negligible and can be the result of any number of minor adjustments.
I question the logic of launching in Hong Kong and Taiwan with only 20,000 units. Put yourself in a retailers place. How much floor space are you going to devote to the PS3 when you will sell out in minutes and not have a firm schedule getting more. If indeed the 20,000 for those two regions are coming from the Japan's original allotment and looking at the sales projections, 6 million by March 07,then production would have to ramping up in a very big way. If it was, then why take from Japan's total, when they could wait a couple of weeks and supply some reasonable amounts?
Is there a random number generator at the heart of the PS division's vision? This makes little to no sense.
I agree and i didnt mean to appear as if i was homing in on the 20k figure, i was more looking at the larger picture where you have sony execs claiming the 400/100 numbers were more of a "target". So its the 20k here but the general 'backing off' by Sony on their 2006 and 2007 estimates from a few months ago.
I just think they are using dices...
mckmas8808
Legend
I think Hong Kong and Taiwan being smaller markets (in relation to Japan) makes it fair imo. Japan buys more hardware than Hong Kong and Taiwan combined. Actually HK and Taiwan are getting ALOT of units compared to Japan (relative to the amount of people readying to buy a PS3).
That's a bad thing??
The faster they make us Euro's play imports and whatnot, the better it is!!