Ken Kutaragi, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., made some information public about the upcoming launch of PS3.

Worldwide launch (North America, Asia, and European territories) will be in November consisting of approximately 2 million units with 1 million a month additional each month for the remainder of the fiscal year (March 2007). It will come with a 60G hard drive, full Blu-ray support, and be 100% backward compatible (upscaling to HD). An online service will also be freely available providing lobby matching, voice chat, and commerce features.

Pricing hasn’t been officially announced but is expected to be in the $400-450 range.

Not too bad. The real question is if SCEA employees will get one gratis (employees were all given a PS2 at launch). Personally, I doubt it. If it duplicates the PSP launch, we won’t even be able to buy one until the channel is filled (about 3-4 weeks after launch) and even then, since the hardware is sold at a lost the emplyee "discount" will be minimal.