
Sony's been saying that the consoles wouldn't be coming in large shipments, since they are not being flown in rather than boated in, and that it would be a smaller, though steadier stream of consoles; But an anonymous tipster writes that Best Buy's next big Playstation 3 shipment will be hitting on December 12.

Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year's shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive.
Sony plans to ship two million PlayStation 3 players this year to the U.S. and Japan, and six million worldwide by March. The Tokyo-based company said yesterday annual profit would fall 35 percent to its lowest in five years on price cuts of the console in Japan and a recall of 9.6 million computer batteries.
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