To: MICHAEL DEL ROSARIO who wrote (1819 ) 11/15/1999 9:26:00 PM From: Rusty Johnson Read Replies (2) | Respond to
It isn't clear to me. TOKYO, September 13, 1999 - Heralding in a new age of digital entertainment, Sony Computer Inc. (SCEI) today announced the launch details of its revolutionary computer entertainment system, PlayStation©2. Building on the success of the worldwide best-selling PlayStation© game console with hardware shipments exceeding 60 million units, PlayStation2 is designed to bring together movies, music and games to form a new world of computer entertainment. PlayStation2 will launch in Japan on March 4, 2000 with an unprecedented initial week's shipment of one million units. Supporting both the audio CD and DVD-Video formats, PlayStation2 offers consumers a wide range of music and video entertainment options. The new system is backwards compatible with the original PlayStation, bridging the gap between the two systems while legitimizing consumers' investment in their existing PlayStation software libraries.Sony Computer Entertainment announced the following details of the new system: "PlayStation2 is charting a path toward the future of networked digital entertainment ," said Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Just as PlayStation brought interactive gaming to an unprecedented mass market, PlayStation2's combination of breathtaking oanda.com
