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Sony Says New Playstation Might Even Show Movies
With much fanfare, Sony this week announced its plans for the nest generation of Playstation, which will be released in early 2000. The company said graphics would come to life and the 3-D images would pop off the screen of the new console, which will have a 300 MHz, 128-bit processor.
Sony also said the machine would be able to function as a CD players and perhaps a DVD movie player.
Considering the prospect of DVD capability, Ron Dulin, executive editor of Gamespot magazine (www.gamespot.com), an on-line game publication, said "that would be crazy," which apparently is a high compliment in gaming circles.
Mr. Dulin said he doubted that consumers would hold off on buying a Playstation this year in anticipation of the new release.
But Mr. Dulin suggested that Sony might be willing to lose a few customers in order to achieve a bigger aim: positioning itself against Dreamcast, a next-generation game console that Sega, a competitor, plans to release in the United States in the fall.
Sony officials said they were paying close attention to the progress of Dreamcast but had not altered their schedule as a result.
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