Sony hasn't started building yet

According to a new interview with Kaz Hirai, SCEA president, Sony will not be able to make enough units for the demand of their PS3 this fall which is due out in 3 short months.

"We haven't started manufacturing yet. Some of our ops guys were actually just in China, and also in Japan just reviewing the lines and everything else." says Hirai, "But they are, again, preparing as we speak to get the manufacturing going,"

Sony is still however sticking to their original estimate of 2 million PS3's at launch, which would give a bit less than 700,000 units per region, though the numbers will most likely be skewed to some degree favoring one over the others.

Microsoft had a similar problem with the 360, by starting their manufacturing so late they ended up very short.

My view of the situation? I don't see any problem here, mainly because I'm pretty sure the US won't buy 700,000 PS3's. Everyone will be cramming to get their grubby little kids Wii's and 360's, maybe even both, prior to dropping the paycheck (see: nearly whole) on a system that has no interesting launch titles and access to a fledgling media type.

Don't worry Sony or sad people looking for one at launch, my guess is that there will be enough.

\\drew