{"id":11159,"date":"2011-04-07T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ngp-will-not-be-delayed-earlier-reports-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11159-ngp-will-not-be-delayed-earlier-reports-wrong","title":{"rendered":"NGP will not be delayed \u2013 earlier reports \u201cwrong\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we reported on a story run by <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/11097-Japan-earth-quake-could-push-NGP-back-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> in which Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton stated that due to the natural disaster which affected Japan last month, the company&rsquo;s next generation portable console, NGP, is not likely to make its planned global release later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Spokesperson Satoshi Fukuoaka has now refuted the story, telling <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110404-714785.html?mg=com-wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> that &ldquo;so far we see no impact from the quake on our launch plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These are two conflicting statements both coming from authoritative figures at Sony Computer Entertainment, so it is difficult to tell what the eventual outcome will be. On one hand, Fukuoaka&rsquo;s statement may be designed to protect Sony share prices, but on the other, it may well be the case that Sony Japan has found a way to overcome the challenges faced by the quake and resultant tsunami, and that a global 2011 NGP launch is still in the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan natural disaster won&#039;t impact NGP release date<\/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-11159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","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=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}