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Report: PlayStation 2 To Land Jan. 23
News Financial analyst Merrill Lynch predicts that the PlayStation 2 -- Sony's next-generation game console -- will hit Japanese shelves on Jan.at a hefty price of 45,000 yen (£238), according to a report published Friday.
[August 16, 1999, 11:53]
PlayStation 2 Taps Into Grid Computing
News Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed company using supercomputing technology to run online games, is set to announce on Thursday that it will begin supporting Sony's PlayStation 2 console. But the service is perfect for the Sony's PlayStation 2, which...
[February 27, 2003, 8:26]
PlayStation 2 Arrives In US
News The PlayStation video game console has been one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics, and Sony had planned to build on that success with its PlayStation 2. That may make the PlayStation 2 hard to find this holiday...
[October 26, 2000, 8:40]
RealNetworks Finds Home In PlayStation 2
News Sony and RealNetworks will announce on Wednesday that they will be teaming up to bring streaming audio and video to Sony's PlayStation 2 gaming system. Sony will include RealNetwork's RealPlayer and RealJukebox software on hard drives that can be...
[May 16, 2001, 11:29]
Will PlayStation 2 Rule The Living Room?
News With a 128-bit processor that runs games three times faster than the Pentium III, a graphics chip two times faster than some high-end graphics powerhouses from Silicon Graphics, DVD capabilities, and most likely, online connectability, the so...
[March 4, 1999, 11:01]
Bots Snarl Sites As Shoppers Seek PlayStation 2
News Many stores selling the PlayStation 2 have said they sporadically receive a varying number of consoles and do not know what day or time they will be available to consumers. Amazon.com, Gohastings.com and Kmart's BlueLight.com are among the online...
[December 8, 2000, 11:54]
Will PlayStation 2 Survive Xbox Onslaught?
News Sony's experience in the console market and its presence in the entertainment industry will help its upcoming gaming console, the PlayStation 2, stave off competition from Microsoft, Sega and others, according to a new report.
[October 4, 2000, 14:01]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Power Supercomputers
Talkback If sony say the Playstation 3 is going to be good, it better be! even though xbox came out before playstation 2, xbox showed great graphics and great technology! i own the new slim playstation 2 and i think it is gr8!
[January 12, 2005, 18:05]
Linux-based PlayStation Grid Is No Game
News A US research centre has clustered 70 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles into a Linux supercomputer that ranks among the 500 most powerful in the world. In all, 100 PlayStation 2 consoles were bought but only 70 have been used for this project.
[May 28, 2003, 8:52]
PS2 Production Moves To China
News In a bid to trim costs, Sony plans to move the manufacturing of all its Playstation 2 gaming consoles to China by 2004. Currently, Japan accounts for about half of Sony's Playstation 2 output. In addition, he quelled rumours of an earlier-than...
[March 17, 2003, 9:53]
Sony Pulls China's PS2 Launch
News Electronics giant Sony announced on Monday that it had postponed its China launch of the new PlayStation 2, the most popular game console in the world. The Associated Press cited earlier reports that said the PlayStation 2’s advanced computer...
[December 24, 2003, 9:59]
Lawsuit Targets PS2 Chip
News Electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have been sued in a patent dispute involving the main chip used by Sony's PlayStation 2 console. Sony has sold more than 60 million units of the PlayStation 2 worldwide, giving the company a broad lead in the...
[October 28, 2003, 9:05]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Power Supercomputers
Talkback soory i did something wrong on my comment so i will change it.If sony say the Playstation 3 is going to be good, it better be! even though xbox came out after playstation 2, xbox showed great graphics and great technology!
[January 12, 2005, 18:11]
Next-gen PlayStation To Sense User Emotions
News Sony is planning to enable future versions of its PlayStation gaming console to recognise user gestures and even emotions, according to an executive. The PlayStation 3 may also incorporate a motion sensor and camera add-on known as EyeToy.
[December 1, 2003, 13:30]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Arrive In 2005
News Sony said this week that it would begin mass-producing its next-generation Cell chips, destined for the PlayStation 3 and other consumer electronics, by the latter half of 2005. The company also said it was beginning production on a new chip for...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
Comdex '99: Sony Wields Stick For A New Era
News But it was clear from Idei's remarks that Sony expects the PlayStation 2 to really blur the lines between PCs and appliances, games, music and movies. Nobuyuki Idei, Sony's president, used his Comdex/Fall keynote address laid out a plan to give...
[November 16, 1999, 9:08]
Microsoft's Rare Buy Pits Xbox 2 Against PS3
News Microsoft's purchase of UK games developer Rare will help the console maker to compete against Sony when the next-generation Xbox console goes up against the PlayStation 3, according to analysts. Unless the move starts a round of acquisitions now...
[September 25, 2002, 16:39]
Microsoft Opens Xbox Secrets
News Microsoft's said the Xbox will be available at an estimated retail price of $299.99 (£209.74),for the US market, making it competitive with Sony's $300 price tag for the PlayStation 2. Xbox will go head to head with the popular PlayStation 2, whose...
[May 16, 2001, 15:48]
Microsoft To Put Price, Date On Xbox At E3
News Analysts expect the company will match Sony's $300 (£299) price tag for the PlayStation 2. All they have to do is market the GameCube to the people who own a Game Boy Advance, and they've got a pretty good audience," McNealy said, adding that the...
[May 14, 2001, 15:00]
Microsoft May Introduce Game Console In Autumn
News At an expected price of about £179, the X-Box seems based on the premise that fast-falling prices of PC components can offer more bang for the buck than Playstation 2. The Playstation 2 is the focus of a multibillion-dollar investment by Sony and...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
