Originally Sony Computer Entertainment America said that it planned to supply 400 thousand PlayStation 3 units to the North America markets at launch and another 100 thousand for the domestic launch in
According to Mr. Larry Probst, who is chief executive officer at Electronic Arts, Sony shipped about 200 thousand of PlayStation 3 game consoles on the 17th of November. The number is considerably higher than 125 thousand, a pessimistic number predicted by some analysts. Nevertheless, it is still alarming that Sony cannot ship enough game consoles because of production problems.
By the end of 2006 Mr. Probst expects Sony to ship 500 to 800 thousand units in the
Sony PlayStation 3 console is based on the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, the RSX graphics chip by Nvidia Corp. and will be equipped with Blu-ray optical disk drive, a hardware part, which is merely available today.




