voici le dementi de sony qui explique que cette rumeur est bidon bien sure ( c´est tellement evident pfff )
" . ..03/09 22:29
Sony Denies Report That It Will Release PlayStation 3 This Year
By Hiroshi Suzuki
Tokyo, March 10 ( Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., the world´s largest maker of video-game consoles, denied a report in Taiwan´s Commercial Times newspaper that it will introduce the successor to its PlayStation 2 video-game console as earlier as this year.
``The report is wrong,´´ said Koichiro Katsurayama, a spokesman at Tokyo-based Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony´s games unit. ``The timing of the successor machine to PlayStation 2 has not been decided.´´
Sony may start selling the PlayStation 3 in Japan as early as mid-year and overseas by the end of the year, two years ahead of schedule so Sony can widen its lead over rivals Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp., the Commercial Times said, citing unidentified people at Taiwanese parts suppliers.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan, which assembles the PlayStation 2 for Sony, and other parts suppliers on the island will start trial production next month, the report said.
Speculation over the timing of Sony´s next console comes as Kyoto-based Nintendo, the company behind the Mario the plumber game character, prepares a new version of its GameCube machine.
Chip Development
Tokyo-based Sony, in collaboration with International Business Machines Corp. and Toshiba Corp., is developing a new processor, called ``Cell,´´ which will be capable of handling sophisticated graphics and sound over the Internet.
Sony and Toshiba, Japan´s largest chipmaker, plan to use ``Cell´´ in a range of digital consumer products, including TVs, cellular phones and the successor to the PlayStation 2.
The chip is still in development, Molly Smith, a spokeswoman with Sony Computer Entertainment America, said on March 4.
Sales of the PlayStation 2 console, which debuted in Japan three years ago this month, exceeded 50 million units in January.
Sony released the PlayStation 2 four years after the company introduced the original PlayStation console. "
