To say 2006 has been a year Sony wants to forget would be a huge understatement, and the torture isn’t over yet. They announced they were scaling back the number of PS3 they forecasted to be available between launch next month and March 2007, hitting Japan the hardest, but now it appears they are having production problems which may lead to even more PS3 scarcity:

Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year’s shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive.

I had the odds on getting a PS3 on launch day pegged at 50/50, but now I’m thinking it will be more like 10% chance of bagging one. This could turn out to be worse than the Xbox 360 launch. This could turn out to be the worst launch supply of any major videogame system to date.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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