Official rumor: The listing of NGP is not affected by the earthquake in Japan

Due to the recent magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan and the subsequent tsunami, the supply of accessories for many electronic products in the industry, such as mobile phone and tablet, has been a problem. Even a few days ago, research institute IHS iSuppli also stated that Japan The earthquake led to a reduction in the supply of memory chips in the country and pushed prices up all the way, and it is expected that the global semiconductor sales revenue will increase by 7% to US$325 billion in 2011. Ultimately, consumers are suffering... Although many products are subject to Supply problems have seen different degrees of price rises and even worse delays in the release, but Sony's side sang a negative tone.

According to the latest news provided by foreign media, Sony recently stated that the company's NGP convenient game console will not be affected by the earthquake in Japan! This statement triggered media attention because it was completely in contradiction with the earlier statement of the company. Before Sony’s CEO Jack Tretton said in an interview, parts supply was affected by the earthquake in Japan on March 11. There may be problems, so the NGP, the next generation of handheld game consoles originally scheduled for the end of this year, may postpone to 2012.

Only a few days later, Satoshi Fukuoka, spokesperson of Sony Computer Entertainment's Sony Computer Entertainment Department, said: “So far we have not seen any impact of the earthquake on the company’s product release.” And the company also stated that The company has never made it clear that this product will be listed simultaneously in Asia, Europe and the United States. Take the previous product, the company released the PSP in Japan in 2004 and until 2005 this product was in the United States and other Country listing.