Notice how Europe gets shafted on regular basis when it comes to new video game consoles? Apart from occasionally geting a minor platform like the Gizmondo first, the continent is consistently a lower priority for giants like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft than the US and Japan markets (which makes sense on a business level—these are the two biggest markets for video games). The Nintendo DS still isn’t slated to debut in Europe until March 11th (and honestly, doesn’t it seem like the DS has already been out here for ages?), but the latest bad news is that the PlayStation Portable, which Sony had been promising would be released before the end of March just like here in the States, now won’t come out there until sometime in the second quarter of this year because of “chip shortages”. Sony spokesperson Kenichi Fukunaga conceded in an interview that the company simply doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity to make enough PlayStation Portables for all three markets.
[Engadget]
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