As the release date for the PlayStation 3 becomes a topic almost as hot as hidden porn in video games, it’s being suggested that the official European release of the next-gen console won’t come for months after the American and Japanese launches.
According to Spong, the console won’t make its way to Europe until March 2007. Reports have the first wave of launches starting in September 2006 in North America and perhaps Japan, although Sony’s still not given up an official date for any locale.
Let us be clear, we have no lead as to when the new machine will be launched in Japan or the US (recent reports suggest September), though the date of March next year for Europe seems to be official Sony policy at time of press, disseminated to third-party developers, publishers and retail in the past week.
It would appear that Sony Computer Entertainment has briefed partners in all territories as to its launch plans in the last week, resulting no doubt in the series of leaks cropping up on-line. Our information comes from SCEE documentation leaked last week and independently corroborated by two publishing sources, a handful of developers and a leading pan-European retailer. The brief issued by Sony was, seemingly, too tempting a news piece not to leak, almost as soon as it was released.
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