With the Sony PlayStation 3 release date of November 17th having just passed the excitement is yet to die down. A limited number of these new game consoles were released in North America. Estimates range between the expected four hundred thousand and perhaps an only received number of two hundred and fifty thousand models. Yet despite its high price retailers were sold out in a matter of hours with many of them having been unable to meet their preorder obligations. Employees who had preordered were denied their consoles and asked, actually told, that they would get theirs when the next shipments came in.

The same thing happened in Japan where the release date was November 11th, almost a week earlier. In twenty-four hours they sold just over eighty one thousand consoles. Was this done purposely to increase the anticipation in the United States as fans of the PS3 watched as those across the ocean were already bringing their new game consoles home? Many irate North Americans question why it was released there first.

What about the Sony PlayStation 3 release date in Europe and Australia? Is there a reason that only certain areas of the world were thought to deserve these game consoles in time for Christmas and yet others were not? Why do Europeans and Australians have to wait for a PS3 release date of March 2007? This has angered a lot of fans. Especially when Sony has threatened anyone who sells a North American model overseas with legal action.

The PS3 release date of the second shipment has not surfaced yet. Sony is promising to ship another million ps3 game consoles by the end of the year or hopefully before Christmas with enough time for them to be snapped up by gift givers. Though many people are already buying them through auction sites like Ebay, where consumers are willing to pay extra just to ensure they get their PS3.

Many consumers are complaining that the Sony PlayStation 3 release date was a staged event to generate more interest then there would otherwise be if the consoles came out with a good supply. Irate shoppers are claiming that the shortage is nothing more than a publicity stunt designed by Sony to increase its flagging share of the gamers market. With the other new game consoles coming out in good supply and worries about the PS3 being twice the price and maybe not twice the kick many feel that generating publicity is more important then supplying the game.

The company is of course denying any such motivation and sights instead high research and development costs, production problems and delays by suppliers that caused the slow down of their launch. They had hoped for the original PS3 release date in the spring but delays seemed inevitable.