The folks at Ars Technica have an
article
dissecting Sony's CEO interview with the Hollywood Reporter. In the
interview, Howard Stringer of Sony says that the PS3 will launch in the
U.S. a year from now giving the Xbox 360 an almost year headstart. In
Japan, the unit will launch in March. With the article mentioning that
the PS3 will be preloaded with material, Ars thinks the console will be
bundled with a hard drive. Would Sony take the backlash on all the
consumers complaining about the lack of HDD in the Xbox 360 and turn it
around by putting it in the Sony as a standard? That's possible and I
wouldn't get past them to do it. It's all speculative until the release
of the machine in March and even then they could change what's released
in the States compared to the machine in Japan six months later.
