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Sony Settles PlayStation Case
News Sony Computer Entertainment has decided to work with Connectix, a developer of software that helps PlayStation games run on PCs, rather than fight the company. Sony argued that because Virtual Game Station allowed PlayStation games to be played on...
[March 16, 2001, 8:22]
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]
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. NCSA's supercomputer runs on the Linux operating system which was included as part a Sony Linux...
[May 28, 2003, 8:52]
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]
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]
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]
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. Will Xbox demolish Sony and PlayStation 2?
[October 26, 2000, 8:40]
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]
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. Sony has announced plans to later shift PlayStation 2 console production to China as well.
[December 24, 2003, 9:59]
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 announcement followed a day after the launch of Sony's latest...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
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. Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) vice president Phil Harrison told an Australian newspaper that...
[December 1, 2003, 13:30]
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]
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]
Sony Unveils UK PS3 Pricing, Availability
News Sony Computer Entertainment announced PlayStation 3 pricing and specific availability information and showed off the final version of the console's controller at a glitzy press conference held at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Monday.
[May 9, 2006, 9:00]
Will PlayStation 2 Rule The Living Room?
News Sony, an entertainment conglomerate, worries that a multi-faceted PlayStation might cannibalise sales for other units. Sony makes a lot of money selling audio-video components, so they have reason not to want to release DVD (in the PlayStation...
[March 4, 1999, 11:01]
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]
Will E3 Herald Console Price Cuts?
News Sony has already announced a new PlayStation 2 configuration, and Pidgeon expects Microsoft to introduce a slimmed-down version of the Xbox. Billy Pidgeon, an analyst for research firm Zelos Group, said current prices for game consoles -- around...
[May 9, 2003, 16:36]
Microsoft May Introduce Game Console In Autumn
News Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, has touted the upcoming Playstation 2 not as a simple video game machine but as a connected device that can handle Web surfing, electronic commerce and other chores and that is easier to use...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
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. Sony had a pretty weak response to the PlayStation 2 at last year's E3, McNealy noted, but by the time the console went on sale, consumers were lining up for...
[May 14, 2001, 15:00]
Nokia Looks To Linux For Games
News Sony uses Linux for its PlayStation 2 development and has recently released disks so hobbyists in Japan can use Linux as well. Based on a 366MHz Celeron processor, the Nokia system will not have the graphics power of Sony's PlayStation 2 nor...
[May 15, 2001, 7:56]
