Sony estaria considerando sacar la consola a fines del 2005 en Japon y luego ir viendo de lanzarla en el resto del mundo (Europa a mediados del 2006) y con DVD comun y sin BluRay dado el apuro a sacarla en fines del 2005 a fin de no darle tiempo a 360 en el mercado Japones...

[quote]Sony Considers 2005 PS3 Release
A company rep hints at the possibility of a release this year.
by Anoop Gantayat

May 12, 2005 - In a surprising twist on the next generation hardware race, a Sony representative has stated that a year 2005 release for the next generation PlayStation is a possibility. Responding to questions from Jiji news service, Sony Chief Financial Officer Takao Yuhara states, "For the year end sales season, simultaneously building up both the PlayStation Portable system in America and Europe as well as the next generation PlayStation is one option that we have."

Most industry speculation calls for a next generation PlayStation release in 2006. Sony's third party developers have backed this assumption up with a strong list of PlayStation 2 titles planned for the rest of the year and early next.

The state of the next generation PlayStation software shown at next week's E3 show should reveal if a 2005 release is a possibility for the new system, or if Yuhara's comments were designed to take some steam out of Microsoft's Xbox 360 unveiling later today.