| From: | Philip Meason |
| Date: | 6 Jun 2000 at 13:59:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Playstation 2 licensing (was RE: MISC chip) |
> > > PS2 thing, are sony getting desperate to gain a large market share by
> > > licencing the hardware?
PlayStation has proved its longetivity, so you could
> > expect 4-5 years of entertainment (plus a LOT of cheap old games of quite
> > nice quality) when you buy that Widescreen...
>
> Argh! No! What's the point of that? It's like TVs with videos built in. You
> only ever see them in university libraries and schools (oh, and Argos
> catalogues... I'd like to know how many of those they sell :-) The advantage
> of keeping units separate is obvious - if your playstation 2 hardware breaks,
> you don't want to have to fork out for another widescreen TV or have to lug it
> back to the store to be repaired.
I totally agree with that! I hate these all in one units. They
become a complete horror when things go wrong. They also make
upgrading much more difficult coz if you wish to upgrade your telly
you would also have to replace your video player (or playstaion,
and whatever else you have intergrated in there).
Hmmm, perhaps Amiga could get some kind of lisence so, then the
Amiga would also have a huge back catalogue of games and it would also
encourage Playstation owners to buy Amiga...
Just a thought
Peace
Zanthras
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