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PlayStation 3 may be playable at Tokyo Games Show

Ellie Gibson 11:53 26/07/2005
Kutaragi talks TGS, demand for dev kits and putting a high price tag on the 
PS3

Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has given a strong hint 
that visitors to this year's Tokyo Games Show may get the chance to try out 
playable PlayStation 3 demos.

Speaking at the PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo last week, Kutaragi said: "We 
hope to use the Tokyo Game Show as a chance for everyone to get to know, or 
possibly experience, what next-generation entertainment is all about."

Kutaragi also unveiled the current PS3 development kit, codenamed Cytology, 
at the event. It runs at 2.4GHz with a 512MB memory and is about the same 
size of a PC, but Sony plans to produce a smaller version in December titled 
the 'PS3 reference Tool'. The new kit will run at 3.2GHz, like the PS3 
itself.

So far only 450 PS3 dev kits have been shipped around the globe, according 
to Kutaragi, who explained that this was not by any means due to a lack of 
demand. "We've been getting a lot of requests from developers since E3 that 
they want more development kits for the PS3," he said.

"The demand for the kits has gone beyond what we can handle. We've been 
discussing what we can do about it."

Sony will ship 200 dev kits in August and another 300 in September but 
things will truly start to take off in October, when the rate of production 
will increase to 3000 units per month.

Kutaragi went on to restate earlier suggestions that the PS3 won't come 
cheap, telling the crowd: "I'm not going to reveal it's price today, I'm 
only going to say that it'll be expensive."