Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!macsuppor From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Playstation 2 details Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:50:03 +0200 Organization: Debri Productions Lines: 79 Message-ID: <1dfwn22.a7u8a0bydajoN@a1-88-115.a1.nl> References: <6uf42g$ja93@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-115.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 (unregistered) Nick Ferguson wrote: > Hi guys, > > Game Online (www.game-online.com) has just announced details of the > Playstation 2, and revealed that the next CVG (CVG????) You don't know C&VG? It's a respectable magazine witch covers all systems. When I first bought it, there was a lot of NEO GEO in there. I didn't buy it for ages now since I buy all the other magazines. I discovert that almost all your UK mgazines can also be bought in Holland. I already bought the PSX magazines, T3, Edge and so on. But when I'm in the UK I also buy Maxim, Esquire, FHM, etc. Now I noticed that all these magazines are also here in the shops (starts at a fiver). So I now spent even more on magazines. > Fingers crossed, eh? I *love* the bit about backwards-compatible! I don't get the hype about backwards compatible. When I bought a SNES, I did not want to play the NES games on it. And I'm not intending to sell my NY so why would I need another system capable of playing the same old disks. There are only 2 thinks that would make it interesting. I know that there would be a lot of software for it at launch (old stuff). But I do think that the majority would buy it for new stuff and already owns a PSX. There are over 13.000.000 PSX's sold!!! A good option would be a link-possibility between the old and the new system. Most buyers of the PSX2 would probably own the PSX1 and mose households do have 2 TV-sets (I have 2). It would make the link-option a lot more interesting. > > The release of Playstation 2 is little more than six months away. The > staggering news is revealed by C&VG in their forthcoming issue, along with > details of the hardware, including custom hardware support for a > cutting-edge graphics rendering technique. > (Nick F: nurbs?) > April '99 is the date hinted at by various very reliable sources for the > Japanese launch, with a European/North American roll out in the autumn > period. The news should rock Sega, who were hoping for a clear 12 months > headstart for Dreamcast. > (Nick F: AIEEE! 1999 is going to be a v. expensive year for me) > Other features of the system is that it will be fully backwards-compatible > (ie. play 'old' PSX games), an expected feature and also the reason why Sony > could expect to launch another system while the PSX software market is still > so strong. > (Nick F: I hope so!) > CVG also has details of radical new graphics technology to be found in the > machine, and other technical details about the disc format and architecture. I just don't trust sega. I don't think yhey can make that machine with all those options for that kind of money. If they can, they would also need a lot of developer support (and I think the support is far less than they try us to believe. And I REALY don't like windowsCE on a games console, so it there would be a concurating system like PSX2 from a proven-succesfull-SONY, I'd leave the Dreamcast in the shops. I must say that the pricetag will be important for me.. I choose and go for 1 system (and hope it's the right one) > Full details of CVG's scoop can be found in their forthcoming October issue, > out 14th October. > (Nick F: well, I guess now I have a decent excuse for buying CVG!) > I'll buy it to... if I still can affort it (mags are double price here) > Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! (etc) Oh yes please be!!!!! sony don't let us down.. > Wotcha think? And do any of you SCEE bods have any feedback on this? I don't think so, they are probably not alowed to speak.. Cheers, DEnnis..