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Technology Stocks : ARM Holdings (Advanced RISC Machines) plc.
ARMH 67.770.0%Sep 6 5:00 PM EST

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To: Mats Ericsson who wrote (397)2/10/2000 4:53:00 AM
From: Mats Ericsson   of 912
 
Sony plans to sell 500,000 units a month PlayStation II

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Bloomberg)

The company will start Japanese sales of the much-anticipated
PlayStation 2 game console on March 4 as planned, said Ken
Kutaragi, president of Sony unit Sony Computer Entertainment.
''We plan to ship 1 million for the first weekend, and
500,000 a month after that,'' Kutaragi said at a press conference
to unveil the game's digital versatile disc player.

The company has repeatedly denied speculation of a delay.
Sony has set a sales target of 1 million units for the game
machine's opening weekend.

Sony has been dogged by fears it won't be able to mass-
produce the sophisticated chips and find enough of the other
components that power the new machine.

Sony Corp. shares today fell 2.9 percent to 28,710 yen after
the world's second-largest consumer electronics maker yesterday
said some games developed for its best-selling PlayStation video
game console may not work properly on the next-generation system.

Only ''a few more than ten'' of the more than 2,500 software
titles will be affected by the problem, Kutaragi said.

PlayStation 2 will sell for 39,800 yen ($368) and be equipped
with the digital versatile disc player capable of playing movies
and music. The machine is expected to emerge as a key platform for
everything from games to home shopping.

Sony has also said it will introduce a network for
downloading video games, music and movies from the Internet in
2001.
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