Kaz Hirai promises us the PS3 isn't in production yet

Perhaps promise is the wrong word to use, but Kaz wouldn't know anything about that, would he? Seriously though, Kaz Hirai went on record with gamespot to talk about the previous analyst report of Sony topping the charts in 2011. He said the Yankee Group looked at all the information available to them and said that, naturally, "I obviously think that they did a great job on this report." Of course, of course. But what about the title of this article?

Kaz: "we're internally really getting geared up to go to market with this beautiful console in three months' time, and at this point in time all signs are good to go." This is good, this is good. What about shortages? Kaz responds thus: "unfortunately, I think it's going to be very much of a challenge to be able to meet every single unit demand that's out there in the market." Basically, yeah, there probably will be. If not in the US, Japan will have some. If neither, then Europe. Someone will.

But, really, Mr. Hirai, are the PS3's being manufactured? "We haven't started manufacturing yet. Some of our ops guys were actually just in China, and also in Japan just reviewing the [production] lines and everything else. But they are, again, preparing as we speak to get the manufacturing going." Isn't that dangerous, though? It's only three months away... maybe not. Whatever. Also, the online service will be up and running upon PS3 launch.

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