{"id":11097,"date":"2011-04-05T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"japan-earth-quake-could-push-ngp-back-to-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11097-japan-earth-quake-could-push-ngp-back-to-2012","title":{"rendered":"Japan earth quake could push NGP back to 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony big cheese Jack Tretton has told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-04\/sony-new-playstation-portable-may-be-delayed-by-japan-disaster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> that last month&rsquo;s T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami which ravaged the eastern side of the island nation has affected production of Sony&rsquo;s next generation handheld console, NGP. As a result, Sony may have to stagger the release of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Previously planned for simultaneous release in Asia, North America and Europe in time for 2011&rsquo;s Christmas holiday season, the PSP replacement instead may only be introduced to a single region this year. Tretton declined to specify which region this would be.<\/p>\n<p>Wedbush Securities video-game analyst Edward Woo told Bloomberg that a delay would put Sony even further behind Nintendo in the next generation handheld wars, with the 3DS hitting retail last month already. &ldquo;As it is now, it&rsquo;s already going to be almost eight months behind Nintendo, and a delay could push that to a year,&rdquo; said Woo.<\/p>\n<p>Last month&rsquo;s earthquake and tsunami resulted in an estimated 27,000 lost lives, and around 25 trillion yen (R2 trillion +). The 9-magnitude quake has caused Sony to shut down a number of key manufacturing plants in Northern Japan for repair, and further breakdowns in supply chains caused by the disaster have caused delays at production locations not directly affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive manufacturing delays caused by natural disaster <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}