Target shipment of Sony PS3 may be halved

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Yen-ting Chen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 30 August 2006]

Sony's target shipment volume of four million PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles by the end of this year is likely to be cut to two million units because volume production is not set yet, according to sources in Taiwan's game console manufacturing industry.

President and CEO Kaz Hirai of Sony Computer Entertainment America, recently said that Sony is on schedule to deliver two million PS3 consoles in November, another two million in December, and additional two million by March 31, 2007, the sources indicated. However, Sony's OEM makers in China and Japan are still preparing for volume production of the PS3 and there is a short supply of blue laser diodes, a key component of Blu-ray Disc (BD) pick-up heads, and cell processors, the sources pointed out, noting that the situation may halve the total expected shipment volume for November and December.

The Taipei branch of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong declined to comment on the report.

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