Sony to ship 1.2 million PS3's to the US by 2007
updated 11:50 am EDT, Mon September 11, 2006
Post-launch PS3 numbers
Sony has told analysts that in addition to initial launch stocks, it will produce another 800,000 PS3 units for the United States by the end of the year, with 80 percent of them being the high-end $599 version. Thanks Next-Gen. By extension, the remaining 20 percent will be the $499 system. The total number of PS3's in the States by January should be 1.2 million. Sony attributes this to expected improvements in its blue laser supplies; as the Scan has reported, Sony has been having severe problems producing enough Blu-Ray lasers, to the point that many third-party manufacturers will lose out so that Sony can keep up its own quantities.
