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To: mickeyg who wrote (21670)	3/5/2000 11:28:00 AM
From: BANCHEE	Respond to of 57584

mickeyg A little news on Playstation..... Sellout Sony's Playstation 2 hits stores in Japan Last Update: 3:46 PM ET Mar 4, 2000 NewsWatch TOKYO (AP) -- Sony's PlayStation 2 hit stores in Japan Saturday and sold out promptly, whisked off by eager fans who spent the night waiting in line to snap up the video-game machines. Competition for the console, which sold for the equivalent of $370, was fierce in the Tokyo neighborhood of Akihabara, the nation's hub for electronics retailers. Thousands of people were already lining up outside stores on Friday afternoon, hoping to buy the sophisticated game machines on a first-come, first-served basis. Other stores distributed tickets to avoid mobs. At most shops, the machines sold out within an hour of opening time on Saturday morning. "I'm so glad I got one. Banzai!'" said Daisuke Uzuki, a 21-year-old gas station worker, holding his new purchase carefully. "I had to line up for nine hours last night, but it was definitely worth it. You know, it's much more than just a game machine.' The PlayStation 2 can play DVD movies and compact discs, has stereo-quality sound, and can connect the user to the Internet. The machine has stirred much excitement since last month, when Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony's video-game unit, unveiled its vivid graphics and ability to connect to the Net. It will be available in the United States and Europe in time for the Christmas shopping season. Sony (SNE: news, msgs) expects it will take one year before it starts turning a profit on the new toy. But the company apparently considers the expected loss worthwhile as attempts to rise above rival Sega Enterprises (SEGA: news, msgs), which makes the Dreamcast game machine, and Nintendo (NTDOY: news, msgs), maker of N64 and the portable Game Boy. In a front-page story Saturday, the national Asahi newspaper called the machine's release ``the beginning of a game-machine market-share war.' Like the new Dreamcast, the PlayStation 2 contains a 128-bit processor, up from a 32-bit processor in the original PlayStation system, released in 1994. Sony accounts for about 60 percent of the U.S. game-machine market while Nintendo holds more than 30 percent and Sega less than 5 percent. Sony also dominates the Japanese game-machine market at about 60 percent, trailed by Sega at 35 percent. Except for about 16 titles, all of the more than 2,600 games for the original PlayStation can be used on the new PlayStation. Games for the new machine will cost about $52. Sony said it planned to sell 1 million of the consoles in Japan in its first shipment, then about 500,000 units more each month. The thrill of ownership was short-lived for one buyer. A 15-year-old boy was robbed of his PlayStation 2 while riding his bicycle home from the store where he bought it Saturday afternoon, said police in Saitama Prefecture (state), on Tokyo's eastern border. Two teens on a scooter grabbed the vinyl bag containing the game when he stopped to switch it to the other hand, said Hideo Kaneko, a spokesman for the Sugito municipal police.

To: mickeyg who wrote (21670)	3/5/2000 5:03:00 PM
From: carepedeum2000	Respond to of 57584

since im a short term trader, I will never see th 5/6 bagger, just dont have the patience, but when the momo's gone, i'll be gone, but i can see selling this in the 20's short term, but i can see the potential for much higher prices longer term, i just like staying with the "hot sector du jour" hard for me to find stocks im willing to throw in the drawer, but I'll give you some in my "drawer" gblx- everyone needs more bandwidth, gilder favorite rmtr- make a chip called "fram", basically the chip that will allow you to hook up your cell phone to the internet and leave it on all day, very interesting future technology i would recommend checking out cisco- probably the new economy ge on the market, getting very nervous, hope we have some consolidation soon before april earnings run, otherwise, we will get "real shaky", but cant help but going "long till Im wrong"