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"It might be wise to pre-order your PS3 now..."

Sony have announced they're stepping up the Cell chip production to start in EARLY 2005, as opposed to middle or late 2005.

Worldwide production of the Cell chip is estimated to be at 15,000 units a month. Which would mean that even if every Cell chip is put into a PS3, by the end of 2006 they'd still only be able to manufacture 360,000 of them.

There are 5 million PS2 owners in the UK, over 60 million PS2 owners worldwide. If you want a PS3? Join the queue.

Heh, if Final Fantasy XIII is a launch game I'm down to preorder like lightning....could happen.

Could, but doubtful :(

Oh god. I don't even want to think of it as a launch game. My husband will kill me if I go and buy 'another!' console.

This reminds me of the time when Mr. Blobby nicked the Xmas number 1 from Kylie & Jason. The reason? They couldn't manufacture enough Kylie & Jason records to meet demand.

X-box could snatch it.

Absolu† Neó wrote:
> Where did you get this information from FM?

Here:

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6087307.html

BUT!!!!

On another secret hush hush forum far far away, someone else has indicated that infact when gamespot said 'chips' they should have said '300mm wafers from each of which 100 chips can be produced'. That would mean a more respectable 18 million PS3s per annum (but then remember not all Cell chips will be used in just PS3s). Trouble is the guy who said it didn't quote a source.

So it's back to square one. i.e. nobody knows anything as usual.

is this the PS3 controller ?, hehe

http://i13.ebayimg.com/02/i/01/42/0f/9d_1.JPG

Think how horrible that would be to have as a controller.

*Shudders*

How would you reach R2 without touching R1?

Pretty difficult...

*scratches head*

Very curious about the "Bio-on" function ;-)

some wally has already put a PS3 on ebay, no bids yet, but just wait ....