Semi-official Playstation blog Three Speech posted some interesting excerpts from the December OPM UK issue. In the issue, which will be in stores by November 15th, OPM has an interview with corporate exec. of SCEI Phil Harrison. In this interview Harrison he declined to “make any definitive statements on the European Playstation 3 launch.

On asking if the PS3 will definitely be out in March in Europe…

“Given that all of our previous statements about launching in Europe simultaneously with the US and Japan turned out not to be the case, I would not like to make any definitive statements on that. It’s not my job to comment on hardware supply issues other than to say some very smart people are working very hard to catch up. In fact, the ramp up is already starting to happen in supply and output, just obviously too late for us to have launched in Europe at the same times as the US.”

Are they happy with the number of games that are exclusive to PS3?

“I’m delighted because we’re launching with a stronger line-up of first-party titles than we had with the launches of PS1, PS2 and PSP – and about a third of these are PS3 exclusive, which is a similar ratio to what we had in the past. The difference this time is that more have come out of Sony’s Worldwide Studios than before. Bearing in mind that we launched PS2 with Fantavision as a first party title – great game though it is – it’s by no means the game on which you would rest an entire format. But look as PS3 launching in America with Resistance, Genji, NBA in full HD and Motortorm. Plus an F1 demo available day one as a download and retail games coming out very shortly after the launch. That’s a pretty compelling line-up.”

That’s ok Phil, you can delay the launch some more if you want, we don’t mind. Keep an eye on Playstatic for a definitive word on the European launch date for the PS3.