Apparently the news of the PS3 European delay has caused 1-4 percent drop in Sony's stock.

Maybe now is the time for Sony to come forward, admidt they made some bad decisons and announce what they will do to rectify them.

Maybe.

Sony has just announced that they will not be shipping the PS3 to Europe until March 2007. Also their current estimate is that by Christmas their will only be about 2 million units availible in North America.

What's that I hear? Is it Leonardo Di Capio's tedious monolouge before his disapears beneath the frozen waves? Just maybe.

More good news for potential PS3 owners. Check out this incredibly technical explanation as to why the PS3 may have slower loading times then the XBOX 360.

According to a number of videogame blogs, there is a growing concern that to actually take advantage of the high defintion nature of the PS3 you must buy the more expensive model.

Even if you you do purchase the $600 version of the console you still need a cable that apparently runs fro $25-60.

This just in: the official PS3 slogan for Europe is "this is living." Maybe Sony is trying some kind of anti-marketing campaign where they try so hard to make people not intrested in buying a PS3 that it becomes cool to do so.

The Fall is almost upon us which means the deluge of videogames that are released between September to December is about to begin.

I am actually curious how sales will do this quarter. On one hand the market has been stirred by all of the next generation hype. On the other hand developers must seem some drop of intrest durring the summer burst of mediocrity.

How many people just stop coming into their local store when they see almost nothing intresting released for almost the entire summer months?

Videogame pundits are calling the Lepzig show for Microsoft. Most, are caling Sony the clear looser. Which just means for more bad press for the electronics giant. To add insult to injury both of the owners of Penny Arcade have announced that they will not be purchasing a Playstation 3 at launch.

So if any good comes of any of this it really will answer two questions, how important are trade shows and how important is internet coverage.

As near as I can tell Sony has not made strong showing at any of the shows in has attended. It is also getting slammed by internet columnists. So it would reasonable to judge its success as a meter for how important both of these elements actually are in the games industry.

Game|Life got their hands on a Playstaion 3. They had this comment about the motion sensor:

"The controllers we had in front of us didn't even have the motion sensors inside them… There was plenty of speculation after Sony's E3 conference that the motion-sensing functionality was jammed into the controller at the last minute as a reaction to Nintendo's strategy… Not to mention the fact that apparently the first many game developers had even heard of the functionality was right there at that press conference."

Seriously, it’s like the wait for me to say something nice and bam! Something like this comes along to make me look like an idiot.

Wednesday’s Penny-Arcade has a brief discussion of how episodic content could go in the direction of the very-bad. The possibility of terming various elements of game play into a micro payment system is a chilling one.

Spending real world money to purchase virtual things has been a-time-honored-and-to- be-perfectly-honest-completely-unfathomable-by-me trait of online role-playing games for a long time. Currently, it resides as a sort of black market. However, online game companies must be aware that they are missing out on a massive potential revenue source.

Going to a system where you spend real world money for virtual products seems like a no-brainer. Except of course, is the fact that it is a perfect chance to alienate the large portion of your customer base who already feel videogames are to expensive.

As of right now Microsoft is leading Sony in the public relations battle by simply not saying or doing anything to stupid, something along these lines might be the cheese that leads them into the trap.

Gamasutra has article about the Georgia state government’s plan to educate its citizens on how to use the ESRB rating system. One hand this is great idea from the government’s idea. It is nice to see governments trying to solve a problem by fighting ignorance rather than promoting it. Honestly, the best thing that can happen for the videogame industry is for consumers to understand that some videogames are meant for children and some are clearly not.

It does sort of beg the question though: if the ESRB is doing its job then why does the government have to educate people on how to use their rating system?