Sony on Wednesday introduced the PSX, a follow-up to the hugely popular PlayStation 2, and touted it as a device that creates a new entertainment category.
In addition to the basic features of a game console, PSX will offer a DVD recorder, a 120GB hard drive, a TV tuner, an Ethernet port, a USB 2.0 port and a Memory Stick slot.
The PSX shares a number of components with PlayStation 2, including the Emotion Engine processor and the operating system. But the company tried to design it as a "digital appliance of the next generation," and as more than just a game console, by infusing the elements of a PC and an audio-video appliance, said Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony Computer Entertainment.
"By utilizing the elements at hand, we tried to see to what extent we could approach the realization of a digital appliance," Kutaragi said at a press conference in Tokyo.
Although no one from Sony mentioned the much-rumored PlayStation 3, which is expected to debut in 2005, the company hinted at a plan to build a home server that would incorporate the "Cell" chip, a specially designed processor that will be used in the PlayStation 3.
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In addition to the basic features of a game console, PSX will offer a DVD recorder, a 120GB hard drive, a TV tuner, an Ethernet port, a USB 2.0 port and a Memory Stick slot.
The PSX shares a number of components with PlayStation 2, including the Emotion Engine processor and the operating system. But the company tried to design it as a "digital appliance of the next generation," and as more than just a game console, by infusing the elements of a PC and an audio-video appliance, said Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony Computer Entertainment.
"By utilizing the elements at hand, we tried to see to what extent we could approach the realization of a digital appliance," Kutaragi said at a press conference in Tokyo.
Although no one from Sony mentioned the much-rumored PlayStation 3, which is expected to debut in 2005, the company hinted at a plan to build a home server that would incorporate the "Cell" chip, a specially designed processor that will be used in the PlayStation 3.
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