Analisten twijfelen aan claims van Sony dat het in staat is om in de eerste week na de Playstation II release één miljoen exemplaren te leveren. Volgens EETimes loopt de produktie van de PS2 componenten op schema, maar ligt Sony achter bij de assemblage:
With the introduction of its Playstation 2 only two weeks away, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) held the Playstation Festival 2000 this past weekend in Makuhari near Tokyo, where the Playstation 2 and nearly 30 game titles were displayed for trial play for the first time. But industry attention is focusing on whether SCE will be able to produce the complex chips used in Playstation 2 in sufficient volume for the gaming console's March 4 launch in Japan.[...] Some analysts doubt SCE will be able to supply one million units in the first week as planned. They said SCE was on schedule with device and component production, but that it was behind schedule on assembly.
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Een hetzelfde artikel zegt een game developer van Kapcon dat zij door onervarenheid met de PS2 architectuur op dit moment slechts de helft van de performance benutten.