I know that Sony has pushed back the launch date three times already, but i do believe that it will be out on November 17th here in the u.s.a. If they miss the November deadline then they will be missing out on the Christmas holiday season and they will be letting Nintendo and Microsoft get a big head start, i don't think people will wait another six months to a year for the PS3 to come out, they will just go buy either a Wiii or the 360 then they will have no one to sell the PS3 to when it does come out. I however believe there will be massive shortages for the PS3. Sony said it would have 1 million units at launch but they said that when they put out the PS2 and they only put out half the number that they promised. I am also a little bit upset that they will not have a big game title to go with the ps3 at launch, like mgs,gta, or resident evil, the Wii is coming out with both Metroid and new Zelda games for the Wii at launch. It is hard to knock the PS3 because i do love Sony and i am going to get a PS3 but they better have it all working right when it come out.