Earlier this week Sony announced a cut to their profit forecast, and revealed that the PS3 may not reach its planned shipments for North America and Japan this year. Jack Tretton of SCEA explains: "The honest answer is [that the 2 million is] more of a target. Clearly we've had production issues."
Issues with the blue diode laser persist - shortages with the laser are again named as the culprit for this latest news. The laser is necessary to read the PS3's Blu-ray discs, and is also (obviously) used in standalone Blu-ray players.
However, a Sony spokesperson in Tokyo has since denied any change to the company's shipment targets.
The aforementioned slashed profit forecast is, according to Sony, due to the recent PS3 price cut in Japan and slow sales of the PSP. Sony's game division is expected to lose 60 billion yen of operating profit for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 2007.
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