About the Launch Date

EDIT: called the Sony NY store today, they now suggest a launch date of November 14th...
The Sony store in NY still maintains that they will have some units available for sale from November 4th, although they had previously assured me that it would definitely be available from October 26th on, so I'm not sure what to make of that.


Sony Electronic's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sonyelectronics) on October 31st quoted November 7th as the launch date.

I called the Sony store within Harrods in London on October 31st, they assured me that Sony would be shipping the HMZ-T1 internally from November 9th and that it would be available there from November 15th.

The current state of the different Sony online stores:

US: available on or about 11/04, priced at $799, preorder available

Japan: available on 11/11, priced at JPY 59.800

UK: available for preorder at £799, no release date

Germany: no info, no price

France & Spain: not available, priced at €799, no preorder
Switzerland: not available, priced at CHF 999, no preorder

Assuming that Sony at least internally has a plan, what's going on here? For instance, the HMZ-T1 was  available for preorder at €799 in the German online store with a launch date for mid-December until just last week, why would they all of a sudden remove all of the info as well as the option to preorder?

At the moment, I believe the only thing we can be certain of is that there's some sort of delay, but I wouldn't trust any other info at the moment - they keep pushing this back, and it's pretty clear that most of the Sony representatives that both I and other people have spoken to have no idea about when this thing will actually launch.

As always, follow me on Twitter @hmz3dgaming or keep an eye on the blog for any updates, I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything!