Consumers now realise that they may have to wait until the autumn to get their hands on a PS2.
Discouragingly, innovation in this area has recently come from Silicon Valley start-ups such as TiVo and Replay TV, rather than from Japanese electronics companies.All of this raises the stakes for the PS2.
The PS2 original, released just over a decade ago, was great from the start.
The Guy Game is an Xbox and PS2 trivia title that rewards correct answers with photos of topless girls.
Wednesday Cordially invited Gizmondo exec goes down Xbox Live catches Worms Thursday PC gets its next generation E3 rises again PS3 and opium Burning Crusade release date confirmed Friday PS2 does 40 mil in Europe.
With its richly evocative 18th Century Caribbean setting and smoothly animated sword-fighting set-pieces, it's an Xperia Play exclusive that would stand up against a few very late PS2 or very current PSP titles.
I think it's going to be the second coming of the PS2, basically, especially if they can beef up their basic PSN services a bit.
So a few teething problems in the early days are nothing to worry about; besides, the PS2 was also criticised for being expensive, over-engineered and unreliable when it first appeared.
Although it requires the purchase of an accessory, Xbox's ability to play DVD movies is interpreted in some quarters as Microsoft's attempt to gain a foothold in the living room, too.More careful examination, however, shows that the PS2 DVD phenomenon was a brief anomaly.
The factors that will set these consoles apart from each other are software and what for games consoles are unconventional hardware features.When Sony's PS2 was first released in Japan in March 2000, its initial sales relied significantly on the console's ability to play films on digital video discs (DVDs) as well as games.
As a means of surfing the web, the PS2 must wait, because broadband connections are essential for what Sony wants to do.This sounds fair enough, except that nobody knows how fast consumer broadband will take off.
