Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Steve Spiller" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: playstation 2 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:19:27 -0800 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 44 Message-ID: <7bi2mf$d5f1@scea> References: <36d93950.632204@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <36DC15B3.54D31DDF@easynet.co.uk> <36DC17ED.55C49399@scee.sony.co.uk> <36DC1D58.D4AAF145@easynet.co.uk> <36DC2747.DBEFEF0B@scee.sony.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tide71.microsoft.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.203 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.203 Here are some good PS2 links: http://psx.ign.com/news/7138.html http://psx.ign.com/news/7141.html And the specs to drool over: http://psx.ign.com/news/7135.html -Steve James Russell wrote in message news:36DC2747.DBEFEF0B@scee.sony.co.uk... > philip gooch wrote: > > > > http://www.playstation-europe.com/pr > > > > But how much will all this cost -£5000? > > The Nikkei screwed up - the Japanese have an alternate way of writing down numbers, and they > mistranslated. The proper translation should have read "in the 10s of thousands of yen", ie. Y > 30-50,000, which is about £150-250. Considering it will probably be a DVD player as well, I'm not > surprised it's slightly higher than DC. I don't know what the pricing position is, it wasn't in any > of the Press Releases. > > Great that it's backwards compatible, can play DVDs, has 32Mb and can kick a PIII's bottom in some > respects... > > See http://www.game-online.com for some images that will make your jaw drop. > > James > > -- > == James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk +44 (171) 447-1626 > == Developer Support Engineer - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe > > The cigarette does the smoking, YOU'RE just the sucker!!