Sony's PSX A Hit In Japan, PS2 Launches In China

Thanks to Reuters for their story revealing Sony's PSX 'media center' has been a major hit in Japan, after the PlayStation 2, DVD recorder and DVR combo "went on sale on December 13 in Japan amid a flurry of media attention." According to Sony boss Ken Kutaragi: "We sold 100,000 PSXs in the first week. It sells for almost 100,000 yen ($941) and it still sold out. There are no products out there that can say that." CNET News are also reporting that the PlayStation 2 has finally launched in China, after "the company... shelved plans for its December launch but failed to provide a full explanation for the change." The PS2 roll-out seems very low-key indeed, though, as "the electronics giant cut down its distribution to two cities from the original five."

Comments

Linux

[manon]

Will the Linux pack for PS2 be the China Red Flag Linux version?

Re:Still sold out? - Point of view

[Maresi]

Hmm, praps Sony IS sold out, but all these boxen rot in the stores.

So Sony sayes the truth: THEY are sold out. If any of these boxes has ever reached any customer is another story (this is, btw. an often-used marketing trick, e.g. M$ used it with WinME and esp. XP).

Maresi

Re:PSX?

[fr0dicus]

No; that was a term of uncertain origin which all the "cool" computer media sources insisted on using instead of its real name. It was never officially called "PSX". I generally treat anyone using this term to describe the original Playstation with as much contempt as possible.