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PS3 Assembly Starts End of September, Most High-End

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the took-them-long-enough dept.

GameDailyBiz is reporting that Sony has announced further details on the PS3 assembly process. Final assembly will apparently begin at the end of this month, with some 400K units planned for the November 17th launch. They're promising another 800,000 units by the end of the year. From that article: "Although Sony will have shipped only 2.4 million units worldwide in 2006 (as opposed to their initial forecast of 4 million), the company still believes it will hit its goal of 6 million shipped through next March. Sony said that monthly PS3 production will be ramped up to 1.2 million units in January when the Blu-ray laser supplies are expected to improve." Gamespot has further analysis, stating that the split will be about 80/20, favoring the higher-end model over the lower-end model. That is, most of the units at launch should be the $600 model with the HDMI port.

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  1. Sony vs Nintendo - The Epic Battle Begins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    TGS is right around the corner and the battle for next gen crown starts a month or so later between Nintendo and Sony.

    One has to wonder if Microsoft is even relevant to the console market anymore.

  2. All Zonk's anti-Sony FUD Comes To Naught by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So much for the year long anti-Sony/PS3 crusade by Zonk. Soon we will have to sit through the inevitable bitter stories submitted by the sad little man complaining that gamers are once again getting fooled 'by teh Sony Hype' as PS3s fly off the shelves.

    Even if one didn't have an interest in any of the vast library of PS3 games, just the fact that every PS3 purchase is a knife to the heart of that bitter little fuck Zonk is reason enough for people to try to get their hands on one come November...