Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Just a thought ! Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:16:54 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 52 Message-ID: <78l30s$gpd4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <78g4ed$nd49@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36AC9EA2.38D084B5@which.net> <36ACBC41.7392B34B@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup137-87.saqnet.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 James Rutherford wrote in message <36ACBC41.7392B34B@writeme.com>... > >Seriously, the PS2 is /conservatively/ at least a year away from market (most >probably six months or a year more) - development kits AFAIK (and I'm fairly >certain about this) have not been issued to major developers. Any Net Yaroze >2 would be at least another 2 years on top of that, I would guess. 1 year is being conservative? I wouldn't think that the PS2 would be out this side of 2000 even in Japan, unless it's the World's Best Kept Secret or something. Still, there have been a lot of rumblings about dev kits recently, mostly along the lines of "The developers of "Everybody's Golf" have one!!!" Right - that's me excited, then. >Yes, I /do/ hope that there will be a follow up scheme. But I'm not going to >set my dreamy little mind away on some flight of fancy like that until things >look a little firmer - mainly because I wouldn't have much left to >concentrate on what I've got at the moment. Bit poetic for a programmer, James ;-) I think Nick S has a good point - nobody has actually come up with anything that pushes the hardware so much that we can legitimately say the NY hardware or libs are holding anyone back (unless you desperately feel the need to anti-alias your textures). Hell, some of us can't even deal with 3D yet! :-( As for my feelings on NY2 - I hope to have a job by then, anyway. How else am I going to afford all this tasty new gear? A discount would be nice, though... >I think you're best off addressing this question to some suited gentleman in >Japan, upon whose whim this ultimately depends... Aaaah, like so much in life. Suited gentlemen's whims. Mmmmm. I'll get me coat. Nick "Jim S in disguise" F -------------------------- www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf www.loonygames.com www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 "Game over, man. Game over!"