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Playstation 2 U.S. Release Scaled Back

Posted by Hemos on from the must-make-more dept.

A reader submitted: "Sony has set back the release of the Playstation 2 due to component shortages. The Europe release date has been reset to Nov. 24th, but a US date has not been confirmed." We've been seeing a lot of conflicting submissions over the last few days -- and conflicting information from Sony. But what it looks like now is that the initial release, for the U.S., is set for Oct. 26th, and the number of the machines to be shipped has been scaled back by half.

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  1. Bad day Hemos? by crisco · · Score: 4

    Abode, duplicate stories, I'd be careful in traffic dude!

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    Bleh!

  2. coughcough by apocalypse_now · · Score: 4

    ahem.
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  3. Where is Slashdot Going? by Accipiter · · Score: 5
    What I find disappointing about Slashdot lately, is of the stories that get posted, very few are the quality of "Slashdot-3-years-ago" material.

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    2000-09-25 17:45:31 Data Loss when shutting down Windows ME, possibly 98 (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
    2000-09-27 19:15:09 Suspected Creator of 'ILOVEYOU' Chats Online (articles,news) (rejected)

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