We all saw the slideshow images of Sony's plan for future firmware releases, a few months ago at the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing. What happened? In September, the official first-party camera was supposed to be released, and now, in October, we are supposed to have GPS units on store shelves. Since the announcement of these plans, so far, we are at 2.81 firmware, and only have RSS audio, Flash, Chinese font, and GPS/camera library files.



Where is my camera?! There are several possibilities for these delays. They could just be lazy and decide to go off schedule, so as to tick-off the adept homebrewing scene (which is probably not the case). Something, (such as the new TIFF exploit), could have disturbed Sony's schedule, therefore causing them to dedicate more R&D time to patching firmwares for so-called security holes and/or looking out for flaws in the current firmware. Sony might have decided to hold off the new accessories till the holidays in order to boost sales (and steal sales from other next-gen consoles). Or they could be too busy with the PS3.



Whatever the case, Sony has been and is continuing to deviate (or procrastinate) from plans, which will ultimately haunt them in the future as both the consumer loses trust in their support for the console, as well as when the Q4 financial reports come around and sales aren't up to what shareholders thought they'd be. Oh well, still twiddling my thumbs here, waiting... waiting, for a camera.

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