There was a recent Merrill Lynch projection that Sony will sell around 100 million units of PS2 by 2004. If Sony is looking to tie in consumer electronics and PC computing using then I am assuming Linux to be the platform.
Below are comments from Sony's president.
Painting one of Sony's leading products into the picture, Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, added that "PlayStation 2 will revolutionize the what and how of the in-home entertainment experience." The age of standalone PCs will end with the arrival of Sony's Net-ready game console device next year, he proclaimed.
"PCs are pretty much confined today and mostly in the future to telephone-based, 'narrow-band' network," Hirai said. The PlayStation, meanwhile, is being built for electronic distribution of content through fast, "broadband" connections such as DSL and cable modems.
Content will help accelerate the deployment of these communications technologies into the homes of consumers, he added.
Idei said Sony "wants to be one of the top five companies in the broadband world." That Microsoft might be one of the companies that gets knocked off its perch as a result was a possibility at which Sony speakers hinted. |
