Only 500,000 PS2 units for US launch
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Cut n’ paste from Reuters’ article:

Sony said delays would not affect projected North American PlayStation2 shipments of 3 million units in its 2001 fiscal year, which ends in March. It added it still expects to produce 10 million units worldwide in the same time period.

After the 500,000 units available at the U.S. launch date, Sony estimated it would be able to supply 100,000 units per week to the U.S. market.

Tretton said that each retail outlet would get half of the amount of originally expected quantities for sale, spreading the diminished supply evenly across the country. Sony has discouraged retailers from pre-selling the consoles and would not factor existing orders into its supply plans, he said.

Sony said it was working to fix the component supply problems. It planned to increase production capacity to more than 1.0 million units from 400,000 a month to a target 1.4 million units monthly by the end of the calendar year.

The company anticipated shipping 1.3 million PlayStation2 units in North America through the winter holiday season. It said it would have 26 software titles available at launch time, rather than an originally expected 15 titles.