New PSU info from a Jap Mag

[Mage1]

<blockquote>a GC cost only £40 used from CeX or Gamestation,<br>A PS2 can be bought brand new with a free game of your choice for about £100 from Gamestation.</blockquote> <p>A GCN in the USA costs either $100 or $80.<br>DOn't forget about tax. <p>The PS2 can be bought with a free game because the PSP is great!<br>The gameplay has better graphics that of the PS2, By the way, Did you get the new brand of PS2 or old brand?<p>Because the new brand has a built in internet connection.<br>

[Zubon]

Well in the UK all prices given include tax, so if a price tag says "Gamecube -- £40" it means £40. <p>When you say "new brand" of the PS2 do you mean the slimline one? I just have the older style, no internet thing for me. Well, the internet play for PS2 is meant to be crappy in Europe anyway...

[Mage1]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Zubon</i><p>Well in the UK all prices given include tax, so if a price tag says "Gamecube -- £40" it means £40. <p>When you say "new brand" of the PS2 do you mean the slimline one? I just have the older style, no internet thing for me. Well, the internet play for PS2 is meant to be crappy in Europe anyway...<br></blockquote><p>I only have the old one, i found this out in a PSP magazine that came in. :p <p>EDIT:<br>These are the startings from 1995 to 2004:<p>May 11, 1995: The playstation is unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles<p>September 6, 1995:<br>The playstation is unveiled t the Sony Plaza in New York City, and the game Ridge Racer is displayed on the gigantic screen at times square.<p>September 9, 1995: The Playstation goes on sale for $300 in more than 12,000 stores in the USA, and an estimated of <b>100,000</b> units are sold in the <b>first two days!</b> <p>The PS one is diffrerent from the 1995 playstation<br>September 20, 2000: Sony Ships the PS one in the USA, which retails for $99<p>October 26, 2000: The playstation two is launched in the USA, and sells for $300<p>November 1, 2004: SOny Launches the redesigned Playstation 2 unit for $150. The New Unit has a built in Modem and doesn't require a network adapter, which was sold seperatly.<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Mage1 on [TIME]1113704468[/TIME]][/size]

[Zubon]

Yeah, that'll be the chibi slimline one. I was thinking of getting one, as the DVD drive opens to the top rather than sliding outwards, and that way it's easier to play imported games on it.

[Mage1]

This is what the chibi slimline one looks like: http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ps2_new_1.jpg <p>This is the Old PS2: http://www.shurdington.org/images/PS2.jpg <p>This is the PS one: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004XOWT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg <p>This is the PS original: http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~jean/AgosJeuxVideos/playstation.jpg <p> NOTE: I changed the IMG route to URL, so click on the links.<p>I found this when searching for them: http://www.ps3portal.com/Pictures/Playstation3fullsize2.jpg <p>It's a picture of the PS3!<p> ~0 I never knew there was a PS3.<p>And the PSP: http://www.torstensson.com/weblog/sony-psp.jpg

[Zubon]

Very helpful of you, Mage!<p>Hehe, it's sweet how you called it the "chibi slimline one", even though that's my name for it! Do you know what chibi means?

[Mage1]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Zubon</i><p>Very helpful of you, Mage!<p>Hehe, it's sweet how you called it the "chibi slimline one", even though that's my name for it! Do you know what chibi means? <br></blockquote><p>*Checks through all dictionaries for real*<p>Nope<p>I guess it means "tall" and "slim"

[Zubon]

Hehe, no. You won't find it in a normal dictionary. It's Japanese for "little" and it's often used to desribe cute little things. Like Chibi Moon in Sailor Moon, though I've never actually watched that show.

[Mage1]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Zubon</i><p>Hehe, no. You won't find it in a normal dictionary. It's Japanese for "little" and it's often used to desribe cute little things. Like Chibi Moon in Sailor Moon, though I've never actually watched that show. <br></blockquote><p>My sister's watched it all of the shows.<p>I've never seen one, only the characters.<p>also, have you heard of the PS3 before I metioned it? <p>[size=small][Edit by Mage1 on [TIME]1113709657[/TIME]][/size]

[Zubon]

Sure I have. It's rumoured to have nine processors, each of which is very, very fast indeed. As long as it has games by Sonic Team, Nippon Ichi, Namco, Cacpom and Square Enix I don't care what it has, though!<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Zubon on [TIME]1113711300[/TIME]][/size]

[Mage1]

PS3 news: http://www.ps3portal.com/?view=article&article=93&PHPSESSID=9db0c81d9e9032ead8a8749fa5eba149<p>I never heard of it unil now.<p>[size=small][Edit by Mage1 on [TIME]1113711906[/TIME]][/size]

[Benoit]

You will notice, Zubon, that not everyone is of working age on this message board. And even when they are, that doesn't mean that they can find a job. Like me.<p>I'm just a student. I don't get as much money as you. Buying a console is a big investment for me. Especially when I could as well buy some new games I had my eye on for a while.<p>Plus, I don't buy crappily designed consoles (PS2) that come from a manufacturer that ruins the video game industry and breaks a lot of laws. I don't buy a console that doesn't have games I'm really interested in (XBox).

[Zubon]

You seem too hung up on the system. I don't care how the plastic box is designed, I care what games it has.<p>And Sony didn't ruin the videogames industry. If it's ruined, then what ruined it is the Japanese being so insular while everyone else moved ahead. Most Japanese companies have realised their mistake now and are licensing foreign games. That isn't my little theory, it's a widely publisised crisis in Japan. A Japanese game journalist likened it to the early Godzilla films; he said that at the time no one else could compete with Japan for special effects as the Japanese seemed to have more skilled craftsmen working in movies at the time, and Hollywood was pretty disorganised besides.<p>As time went on Japan kept making the same sorts of movies over and over again, and then the west, which had been experimenting and advancing, began to make stuff like Star Wars. The movie industry of Japan couldn't compete, and special effects studios like Industrial Light and Magic sprang up all over the place in the west.<p>The Japanese journalist continues by saying; It's the same now with videogames. On lower-spec consoles the Japanese could dominate, because they had the right skills for those machines - just like how they were best at making old-school special effects for Godzilla. Now that platforms have advanced and more possibilities, both graphical and otherwise, are available, the Japanese developers keep on trying to make the same old games and everyone apart from small hardcore groups are losing interest. In Japan itself gaming is on a very low ebb. He ends by saying that rather than be proud and keep on making cookie-cutter RPGs and 3rd Person Action games, Japan needs to evolve like every other country. Apparently, a studio still makes Japanese Godzilla films in the old way, and they all stink. His words, not mine.<p>Anyway, as an example of Japanese companies realising their error and looking elsewhere: Capcom are now the publisher of Circle Studios' upcoming game. Circle Studios are a UK company. Japanese companies wouldn't have done that sort of thing when Japanese games dominated the market, but now that games like Splinter Cell can do stealth better than MGS (but not story, though) the Japanese companies are looking elsewhere for games.<br>Also, Sega have bought the UK company that made the Total War games for the PC.<p>Some of the most underground and brilliant games that exist are only on PS2, it's not like some turgid corporate box that just sucks on money and trickles out lame games... That'll be the Xbox.

[Mage1]

Xbox bad.<p>PS2 okay...<p>GCn is my favourite!<br> :p <p>You can play up to four people!<p>Too bad PS2 can't...<p>It can only play <b>up to 2 people.</b> <br><p>[size=small][Edit by Mage1 on [TIME]1113798917[/TIME]][/size]

[Zubon]

Well, you can buy a multi-tap, but it is annoying how it only has two ports as standard.