Finally, details. Hard, concrete facts. Sony is expected to announce its launch plans for the PlayStation 3 at tomorrow’s PlayStation Business Briefing 2006 event in Tokyo at 15:00 Japanese time (06:00 GMT).

So first thing tomorrow SPOnG should hopefully be able to furnish you with details of the launch date, the cost and the launch line-up.

There is also some unsubstantiated Interweb chatter today about the possible announcement of a new PlayStation product, which, if anything, is likely to be details on the new camera-equipped PSP.

Ken Kutaragi will be making the announcements on ‘the future of the PlayStation side of Sony's business’, as the Reuters report of Sony’s official statement vaguely puts it. Mr Kutaragi is also expected to furnish tomorrow’s attendees with more information on Sony’s future strategies for supporting the PS2 and PSP arms of its business.

Taking into account the comments made by Koei's CEO Kiyoshi Komatsu about tomorrow’s event, it is very likely there will be some mention of the the PlayStation 3 from Kutaragi tomorrow. Perhaps Sony will finally set the record straight on the PS3's Spring 2006 launch by rescheduling to Q4 or announcing a launch within weeks (SPOnG suspects the former). Next week also sees the Game Developer Conference 2006 taking place in the US, where Sony’s Phil Harrison's will be making a keynote speech.

Come on Sony, this is all getting rather tedious now. SPOnG and, we imagine, most gamers have now had enough of the ‘will they, won’t they?’ PR game the company has been playing. Spill the beans. Don’t make us wait yet another week, otherwise we are only going to keep writing more and more about the many great things currently happening in the worlds of the Nintendo DS and the Microsoft Xbox 360.