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SONY
COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT ELEVATES ITS ROLE IN THE DIGITAL ERA WITH
PLAYSTATION(R)2
NEW COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
TO DEBUT ON TOKYO, September 13, 1999 -- Heralding in a
new age of digital entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
today announced the launch details of its revolutionary computer
entertainment system, PlayStation2. Building on the success of the
worldwide best-selling PlayStation game console with hardware
shipments exceeding 60 million units, PlayStation2 is designed to
bring together movies, music and games to form a new world of computer
entertainment.
PlayStation2 will launch in Japan on March 4th, 2000
with an unprecedented initial weekÕs shipment of one million units.
Supporting both the audio CD and DVD-Video formats, PlayStation2
offers consumers a wide range of music and video entertainment
options. The new system is backwards compatible with the original
PlayStation, bridging the gap between the two systems while
legitimizing consumers' investment in their existing PlayStation
software libraries.
Sony Computer Entertainment announced the following
details of the new system:
"PlayStation2 is charting a path toward the
future of networked digital entertainment," said Ken Kutaragi,
President and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Just as the
PlayStation brought interactive gaming to an unprecedented mass
market, PlayStation2's combination of breathtaking digital graphics,
superb sound and DVD video will open the doors to a new computer
entertainment experience in the home."
The PlayStation2 computer entertainment system will
be available in Asian markets in the Summer, 2000 and in Fall, 2000 in
Europe and North America.
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