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...threw one another to the ground. They ahhed as vividly colored martial artists gouged each other's eyes. The crowd huddled around ultrathin TVs earlier this month at the Metreon, a four-story Sony entertainment palace in San Francisco, was getting a sneak preview of Sony's much-touted PlayStation2. And they were loving...
...company's future. The real test for Sony comes this week when it rolls out 500,000--mysteriously down from a promised 1 million--of the $299 black boxes in stores across the U.S. Game magazines and Internet sites are already buzzing with the question of the season: Is PlayStation2 the great hope of computer gaming or the great hype...
...Sony's sales and $730 million in operating profits. The Japanese giant has sold a mind-boggling 75 million first-generation PlayStations, 27 million of them in the U.S. And with game consoles grabbing an ever larger share of the game market from PCs and Macs, sales of PlayStation2 could get even bigger...
...PlayStation2 is being launched into the most competitive gaming environment ever. Sony is locked in a high-stakes platform war with Microsoft, Sega and Nintendo to lay claim to electronic outposts in living rooms worldwide. Right now the fight is over who will cater to the virtual sniper-attack and dune-buggy needs of legions of young gamers. But before long, these companies are betting, game consoles like PlayStation2 will become broad-ranging digital home entertainment centers used by everyone for everything from music playing to video watching. Still, the corporate battle for digital dominance in the years ahead will...
PLAYSTATION NATION There'll be some unhappy kids--and more than a few grumpy grownups--when Sony releases the much ballyhooed PlayStation2 on Oct. 26. Sony expects that only 500,000 units will be available, which sounds like a lot, but demand is expected to run into the millions. Retailers may have trouble filling even their preorders, so don't wait. Reserve yours now. Or buy a Dreamcast...