European launch details
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LONDON September 28th 2000 - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) confirmed that PlayStation�2 would be launched in 17 countries on November 24th 2000 (namely all EU countries plus Switzerland and Norway.) To be followed by Australia and New Zealand on 30th November 2000 and Poland, the Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iceland and South Africa and some Mediterranean countries before Christmas.

In addition, SCEE announced that a total of 33 software titles would be available during the launch period with a further 63 titles by the end of March 2001, the largest ever library at launch by any platform.

Commenting on this announcement, Chris Deering, President of SCEE said: ‘’We are launching PlayStation�2 simultaneously in 17 territories, with more than three times the number of units than when we launched PlayStation� in 1995.

We will have around 500,000 units of PlayStation�2 during the initial launch period, 1,000,000 units are planned to be produced by the end of December 2000 and 3,000,000 by the end of March 2001. Even so, indications are that demand will far exceed initial supply.