Sony talks on the record!
This one is pure hot, today it was announced some details but there were on record.
Will use DVD
Will play movies
Will cost of around $200
Run "several times faster" than Pentium III
Will will have the ability to handle nearly 50 times more 3D data than Dreamcast
Storage capacity is close to 4.7 gigabytes
Expect a release for March 2000.
Sega Camp is running now, and somehow the DC is not so impressive now.
This is all on Sony's master plan to dominate the Video home market, but is more, they want to make a box where they can play games watch movies and hook on the net all for under $200. Too good to be true? If somebody can pull it off is Sony. Remember that PSX was the single thing that give Sony more $$$.
More on this Mañana!-PSX MASTER
OKYO (Nikkei)--Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. plans to release the follow-up to its popular PlayStation video game system by March 2000. The successor to the world's biggest-selling 32-bit game console is to feature a microprocessor co-developed with Toshiba Corp. (6502) that provides motion picture-quality images, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun learned Sunday.
Likely to be called PlayStation 2, it will also be able to play movies and music stored on DVDs, allowing players to ntegrate various entertainment media into video games.
While it will have data-processing capability several times more than that of a personal computer, the price will be kept below 100,000 yen, company officials said.
Development costs for the new 128-bit microprocessor which integrates image processing, memory and other functions onto a single chip -- reached nearly 10 billion yen. The chip is to have data-processing speed several times faster than that of Intel Corp.'s Pentium III.
The Sony unit seeks more than dominant market share in the video game console market with the chip, company officials said. "We take aim at the stranglehold on the chip/operating system market enjoyed by the Intel-Microsoft alliance," an executive said. He added that major battles will shift from spreadsheets, e-mail or other business-related areas to home entertainment systems fusing games, movies and music.
The new microprocessor will allow users to handle nearly 50 times more 3-D image data compared with Sega Enterprises Ltd.'s (7964) Dreamcast game console. It will also let users produce game characters comparable in image quality to Walt Disney's Toy Story.
While the PlayStation console employs CD-ROMs as its medium of data storage, its successor will adopt DVD-ROMs, boosting storage capacity by 7-8 times to 4.7 gigabytes.
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