Source: PS3 Launch May be Half as Big (News)

GamePro staff, GamePro

05/09/2006 10:05:30

Tech site DigiTimes passes along word that Sony's PS3 launch numbers may only end up being half as big as they had promised they'd be.

Rather than hitting their 4 million unit shipment for 2006 - a figure the company quoted just days ago - the DigiTimes article cites unnamed "sources in Taiwan's game console manufacturing industry" as saying that the console may only reach 2 million in 2006; one million in November and one million in December.

The reason? A shortage of blue laser diodes, for one, as well as the fact that widescale manufacturing of the PS3 is still in the preparation stage.