Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo" Officially Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @12:10AM from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Asriel86 writes "Tokyo Game Show has just kicked off, and with quite a bang. Sony just officially announced the PStwociting a stateside release date of November 1st, 2004. The system will be 25% smaller than the current model, will feature a sleeker design, and a built-in Ethernet port (no adapter required). Sony also says that there will be 120 new Playstation 2 games with online compatibility by the end of the year. That equates to thirty games per month or about one game per day for the rest of 2004."

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The catch... by deminisma · 2004-09-21 00:19 · Score: 5, Interesting

No hard drive bay, which means no Final Fantasy XI.

Sort of similar to how they dumped the parallel port on later models of the original PlayStation, I suppose. It's interesting how support never really matierialised for the hard drive; but then again I can't think of an console expansion that has ever really flown in the marketplace.

Squenix can't be thrilled though.