PlayStation 3 delayed in Europe and Oz until 2007

PS3 News | PAL launches officially delayed.

The official PlayStation 3 site in the UK has confirmed that the PS3 has been delayed in PAL regions including Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia until March 2007. The system will launch as planned in November in North America and Japan. Sony claims the reason is because there has been a delay in the production of blue laser diodes, part of the PlayStation 3's Blu-ray disk drive.

If you're thinking of importing, then the games will (allegedly) be region-free, but the Blu-ray movies will be region coded. This news comes only weeks after Sony Australia assured us everything was on track. The official date for PAL regions has yet to be determined.

We'll have more information on this as soon as possible. Please feel free to post your comments in our forums - we're sure there's bound to be a lot of disappointed readers. Nintendo will be releasing the date that the Wii will be available in a few weeks. Here's hoping it isn't the same situation with the Wii.

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Wrath-of-Jupiter

5 years ago

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