The PS3 launch is upon us. In a little under 24 hours, the console will be available here in the States. People have already started camping out for the console and I feel sorry for those that are in cold weather climates like mine. I had my crazy behind out there last year for the 360 and I refuse to do that for another console. NEVER!

I know the PS3 numbers were lower than what was expected and promised. That leads me to wonder why.We know that there have been issues with Sony producing the blue diodes for the Blu-ray player. But Sony had already appended the number of consoles to 400k because of that. I didn't think of this earlier but a conversation tonight made me think of it. Asustek started production on the console a few months ago. Now what I'm trying to figure out is what kind of problems are they running into if they started production three to four months ago and they could muster less than 400k worldwide. Not only that, here's another article that claims that the manufacturer was shipped 200k of parts/components and in subsequent months the numbers would be increased with 1 million being delivered in September and October. Is the manufacturing process so poorly implemented that so few of the components are netting viable consoles? At this rate, it's highly unlikely you'll see 1.2 million PS3s by the end of the year. You're more likely to find Carmen SanDiego or Waldo at this rate.