Analyst predicts 2 million PS3s by New Year

Citizen high, citizen low. While that story about the PS3 purportedly overheating at TGS 2006 continues to rumble both through the press and through the stock market, an old, familiar name is “upbeat” about Sony being able to meet their target of two million PS3 units shipped by the end of December. That, even with the launch cut.

P.J. McNealy of American Technology Research (you know he’s a familiar name because we got him tagged) says that, based on his research, he believes that production of the console is now at full steam: “It is our opinion that given the 13 weeks or so of production time, SNE can still come close to its forecast of 2 million units worldwide by the end of December.”

He’s done game industry-related research before, and, well, he’s got mixed results. For example, he did blow the call he made to CNN Money that Sony would cut PSP prices. On the other hand, he did note back in early July that Sony would have a bit of a problem manufacturing the PS3.

Well, economics can be a *female dog* – take it from one who has studied it as a profession – but let’s hope that McNealy’s right on this one, and that he did his homework well on this.

Citizen high, citizen low. While that story about the PS3 purportedly overheating at TGS 2006 continues to rumble both through the press and through the stock market, an old, familiar name is “upbeat” about Sony being able to meet their target of two million PS3 units shipped by the end of December. That, even with the launch cut.

P.J. McNealy of American Technology Research (you know he’s a familiar name because we got him tagged) says that, based on his research, he believes that production of the console is now at full steam: “It is our opinion that given the 13 weeks or so of production time, SNE can still come close to its forecast of 2 million units worldwide by the end of December.”

He’s done game industry-related research before, and, well, he’s got mixed results. For example, he did blow the call he made to CNN Money that Sony would cut PSP prices. On the other hand, he did note back in early July that Sony would have a bit of a problem manufacturing the PS3.

Well, economics can be a *female dog* – take it from one who has studied it as a profession – but let’s hope that McNealy’s right on this one, and that he did his homework well on this.