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   What's with all the crazy rumours today?! And why does Sony always get the lousiest of them? As if it weren't bad enough that the European release of the PlayStation 3 was previously set back to March 2007, some sources within the industry have recently been hinting towards April 2007 as a more realistic launch window for the console. But even that seems optimistic, now that CVG drops this huge stink bomb on us Europeans:
"A source has told CVG that a PS3 delay as far back as September 2007 is now far more likely, pointing the finger of delay at - yes you guessed it - 'component shortages'."    September 2007, you have got to be kidding me! That would be nearly one year after the PS3's debut in Japan and North America. Because, as CVG points out, no sane console maker would ever go for a summer release - the only season when hardcore gamers (well, some of them) step out in the real world for a change.

   Naturally, when they contacted Sony UK, a company spokesperson told them that they are still "100 percent on track for a March release". But let's not forget that Phil Harrison (Sony's head of Worldwide Studios) recently refused to give a definitive promise on the March 2007 release, in an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine. And even though September 2007 may seem like a far-fetched delay right now, wasn't it the same in 2005, when the first rumours began dragging the PS3 launch from Spring, to Autumn 2006?

   Anyway, for what it's worth, Sony does have a good news (for themselves), in that the PlayStation 3 has already sold in a month more than the Xbox 360 sold this entire year, in Japan. That's more than 187,000 PS3s in a month, versus 110,000 Xbox 360s in a year. Nice. Oh, and the first Xbox sold 11 (yes, eleven) consoles a couple of weeks ago in Japan. Somebody better tell Microsoft to give up already.