That's right, you heard it here, and hopefully first.
Sony's PS3 was a big fat no-show during this year's big CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas that took place this past week. With that being the case, there is no way the PS3 will release in March as some have speculated.
Why you say? It's simple. To build the buyer hype, it's best to showcase the system at a big event. Yeah we saw a "prototype" at E3 last year, but things have changed since then.
Remember that horrible boomerang controller? Well rumor has it that Sony is totally changing the controller. With that little blurb out on the internet coupled with the no-show at CES - one + one = two, if you know what I mean.
So that brings us to showing off the system in its full working glory during E3 2006, which takes place in May. If Sony does indeed show it off and allow us play test it, you can bank on it not being released till late fall - at the earliest.
Why that long after E3 you say? Well developers will need to work with the new dev kits that tie in with the new controller. That puts any type of game production back several months when it comes to putting out a finished product.
It’s starting to look like the PS3 in 2007 speculation wasn't that far off. We'll be lucky to see this thing come out before Christmas if you ask me.
Maybe this was Sony's evil little plan from the beginning. A way to force the Xbox 360 into the Dreamcast effect by making it look like it came out too early. Now they have time to see what makes the 360 tick, and make their new Next Gen console that much better. That seems to be the case; why else would they completely change something as vital as the controller?
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