Sony Delays PSX To 2005 In U.S.

Posted by simoniker on Friday July 9, 2004 @05:49PM from the back-and-back dept.

Thanks to Bloomberg.com for its story revealing Sony is delaying the American release of its PSX PlayStation 2/digital video recorder combo device until 2005, allegedly "because the device may not appeal to U.S. consumers", according to the article. Dick Komiyama, although not explicitly stating these worries, said: "We're working very hard to make the technology feasible for U.S. consumers", and analyst Masayuki Ito argued: "'Delays give a bad impression... Investors probably didn't have high expectations for the product' because it has had little appeal in Japan." We recently discussed the debut of an enhanced PSX in Japan, as well as earlier issues with last year's Japanese launch.

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Re:Confused by Name by PKFC · 2004-07-09 20:06 · Score: 3, Informative

The first Sony CD based gaming system was an addon for the SNES and it was called the PlayStation. For a number of reasons, the deal fell through and Sony, having done so much work on it already, decided to keep making a CD based console but they called it PlayStation X internally. The media caught wind of this though and everywhere OTHER than Sony is their first system called PSX. Of course, your suggested alternate names point out the problem of coming up with a catchy name with the word PlayStation in it and potentially describing what it does. Everyone knows what PSX is even if they don't know that its their PVR device.