No, the Japanese earthquake disaster is NOT delaying NGP outside of Japan!

Back on Tuesday we reported that Sony Computer Entertanimed America president Jack Tretton was quoted as suggesting the damage caused by the recent natural disaster “may be the straw that says ‘maybe we get to just one market [with the NGP] by the end of the year’’ which most people interpreted to mean “Sorry guys, but Japan will be getting the NGP way before you English speaking folks”.

Well it looks Mr Tretton has now been put in his place by a spokesmen from Sony Computer Entertainment Japan who claims that Tretton’s statement was simply “wrong” and that the true official word on the matter is that “So far we see no impact from the quake on our launch plan,” meaning that at the moment they’re on track to launch the NGP globally by the end of the year. Damage control, another example of Sony’s poor communication between divisions or perhaps a bit of both? Who knows. I guess only time (or yet another E3 info leak) will tell.