Sony's looking to be in good hands on the thrid party front- it's still 4 months away from the big launch and already more than 10,000 PS3 development kits have gone out to game makers. These kits have gone to 208 companies spread out over 11 different countries.

According to Mark Rein of Epic Games this puts Sony in a good place for the November launch. he says developers were starting to receive finished hardware in May around E3. While this may sound somewhat close to launch (6 months) it's more time than Microsoft gave with the 360 kits.