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Smaller Playstation 2 Theorized

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gross-conjecture-good-enough dept.

Tim Grube writes "According to Gaming Horizon and several other industry insiders, Sony will be celebrating their fourth-year anniversary of the Playstation 2 on October 26th by releasing a smaller, more compact version of the game system with the new name PStwo. Some analysts believe the PStwo will retail at $149.99, the current price of the Playstation 2."

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  1. Of Course by urbaer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah.... of course, I just bought my new PS2 last month... the main reason I bought the PS2 was for San Andreas (I decided to buy early), so it's probably a smart idea to launch it at the same time as GTA. The PSTwo might sell a little bit... but it's not going to be huge is it?

    Does this mean the PS1 will finally disappear from our shelves?

  2. Re:So what features is it going to lose? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    instead of taking the drive out, they will probably change to one of the micro drives (a la ipod)

  3. Celebrating? by T.Hobbes · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It's not like some engineers sat around drinking sake and thinking about how best to party down for the 4th anniverery of a product launch. It's more like some executives sat around drinking sake, thinking about how to milk a little more from an aging cash cow. Bah humbug!

    OT, but does anyone know a general rule to solve the equation n^n = x? For example, if n^n = 3125, how would you solve for n? (in this case, n=5)

  4. Re:PStwo pre-christmas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, talk about a pointlessly offensive and immature response (at least in the final paragraph) to what I thought was a reasonable and balanced post.

    Fair point about the popularity of X-Box Live games. I think the point that it isn't just for fpses still stands, though.

    I've nothing against a game where you go around shooting everything in sight. Some of my favorite games are games where you go around shooting everything on sight. Thing is, though, I like a bit of variety. Shooting identical monsters, with identical weapons in identical rooms time after time after time is just boring. There's one level, I think it would be about the 7th or so ("The Library"), where you fight through 4 identical floors of identical rooms and identical enemies. It goes on a long time. The pace never changes. It goes beyond dull into the realms of soul-destroying tedium. This is perhaps the most obvious example, but plenty of the other levels are similar.

    Judging from the way you write, I'd guess you're probably a 1st year psychology student, convinced that a couple of lectures make you into Sigmund Freud reborn and that you can win arguments and impress everybody with your knowledge by making cheap shots at what you think (incorrectly) their language says about them. Yes, I'm non-American, I'm British. "As such" is a fairly common way of starting a line in written English, so I suggest you learn to live with it.

  5. Re:MOD CHIP? by flatface · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the main reasons that companies release updated consoles is to break mod chips.