As you know Sony halted and evacuated six factories in northeastern Japan: “The company is assessing the impact of power outages and damage to its facilities in the region, which make Blu-ray discs, magnetic heads and batteries.” A first consequence of the earthquake is that Sony postpone indefinitely the launch of MotorStorm 3 in Japan (Source: Akihabara). Will Sony delay the announcement of the new NEX and camcorders on April4 too? Probably not because those products will be shown at the NAB show Las Vegas on April 4th and they can’t miss that. More likely the production and shipment of the new products will be delayed. If you can find some news about possible delays or productions stops drop me a line at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!
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For sure. Those Sony employee need time to build their home, taking care of family members.
No problem with the delay.
who cares about delayed announcements,if you see what japan and it´s people are going through at this moment?
Of course that is not important! It’s just a news nothing more than that.
But that doesn’t mean the World stands still and other news shouldn’t be reported and speculated upon.
The best thing that can happen to Japan now is that people purchase their products and keep their economy going.
Well done for the donations bar – a very nice thought!
+1
Also, it wouldn’t surprise me if production in general just takes one huge halt because of the power outages as well thanks to the reactor issues makes it impossible to really push production.
Isn’t the A55 “made” (i.e assembled) in Thailand? Perhaps the events in Japan will not have a great deal of impact on release dates as much of the work may be done in other countries anyway?
My heart goes out to the people of Japan. Stay safe, stay strong.
Supplying us with consumer products is way down the list of what is important to the people of Japan at this time. Japan can be given an unlimited number of Mulligans until they have a chance to heal and rebuild.