Sony Previews Hybrid Gaming Machine
From Associated Press
Sony Corp. offered a preview of its next-generation PlayStation, a hybrid gaming machine with digital media hub features: a TV tuner, DVD and hard-drive recording and photo album and music player functions.
The muscled-up, network-ready console, called the PSX, testifies to the intensifying competition among consumer electronics companies to make the living room the focus of home digital entertainment.
About the size of the PlayStation2, the PSX will go on sale in Japan late this year, beginning at $720 for a 160-gigabyte hard disk version that can record 200 hours of digital video. Sony said the PSX would reach U.S. and European markets next year but did not provide prices.
From Associated Press
