God of Lego
I've decided this is a major revelation.We need a bookie.
So, no playable PS2 at E3, still no playable PS2 at the end of the year, only playable PS2 a month before Japanese launch in February, March Japanese launch with slightly crappy games. Propelled forward by being a cheap DVD player and the popularity of Playstation, but... Awesome games just down the road.1999
*May 11th: Sony formally presents its "second-generation PlayStation" at E3.
A few details are added to the presentation Kutaragi made in Japan, but not much. The unit is not playable.
*September 9th: Sega launches Dreamcast in the United States for $199. Sales are initially strong, but they slow dramatically after the holidays.
2000
*February 18th: Sony holds an event called "PlayStation Festival 2000."
A proprietary tradeshow after the fashion of Nintendo's Spaceworld/Shoshinkai shows, Festival 2000 gave Japan's elite publishers a chance to demonstrate the games they had planned for PlayStation 2. While Namco and Koei had good-looking games ready for launch, Capcom's "Onimusha," a game that would not be ready until that summer, stole the show.
*February 28th: PlayStation 2 is featured in the cover story in Newsweek magazine.
This was a milestone for Sony and the entire video-game industry. "Newsweek" magazine, one of the cornerstones of the mainstream media, was taking the launch of a video-game console so seriously that it merits a cover story.
*March 4th: PlayStation 2 goes on sale in Japan. Some stores have sold out through preorder, others open early and hand units out on a first-come, first-served basis. Along Akihabara, Japan's "Electric Town," stores with a few hundred units have lines of several thousand people. Sales begin at 12:00 a.m. and all PlayStation 2 console inventory is sold out before stores officially open at 10:00 a.m.
Sony had less than 1 million units to sell. Had there been 3 million units, they would have sold out. The Japanese launch of PlayStation was as close as video games may ever get to an event like Woodstock. People from around the world camped out, many for days, in the hope of going home with a PlayStation 2. One disappointed boy is said to have committed suicide by jumping from the top of a building in Akihabara. When a boy was robbed while bringing his PlayStation 2 home from the store, it made national headlines in Japan. The government of Japan declared PlayStation 2 a "super computer," and limited the number of consoles visitors could take home.
That the success of the PlayStation 2 launch was based solely on the popularity of the Sony brand as the launch lineup was universally panned. (Sony did not have any in-house games in that lineup.)
Remind you of anything? Perhaps.... No playable PS3 at CES, February will be the real deal, then out the door in Japan in March....?
What's really giving me deja vu is Square put out all these really awesome RPGs just before PS2 launch. Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross. Seen all these awesome PS2 RPGs just out...?
Eek...
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don't remember which is in-house, but at least Sony published them:(Sony did not have any in-house games in that lineup.)
Popolocrois 3
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Fantavision
I.Q. Remix +
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
- Lenny Bruce
Sup guys, I'm garf, I'm redundant.
Limiting the number that people can take home.....HAHAHAHA
Oh no someone bought a PS2, this is a matter of national security.....HAHAHA
Less invasions, more equations!
らりるれろ
PS3, Iraq's secret WMD!
Oh and yeah it does seem to be history repeating itself, unless two things occur:
1) There are playable games at CES
2) Sony pulls a worldwide launch
Both seem less than likely to occur, but my hopes are up for Sony.
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I don't give damn where it launches first. If History repeats itself, then we're in for hell of a ride with PS3, cuz I know my PS2 has put in countless hours. Whether I get a PS3 next march, or in December, or in 2007, as long as I have an experienced that is equal to what I've had on my PS2, I'm a happy consumer... Oh yea...and for history to truly repeat itself, PS3 has to totally crush 360, which IMO, is just not gonna happen here in the states.
“Had the religion of Christianity been preserved according to the ordinances of the Founder, the state and commonwealth of Christendom would have been far more united and happy than they are. Nor can there be a greater proof of its decadence than the fact that the nearer people are to the Church, the head of their religion, the less religious are they.”
"By their Fruits, you will recognize them..."
Nothing ever ends, Adrian.
Maybe not.Oh and yeah it does seem to be history repeating itself, unless two things occur:
1) There are playable games at CES
2) Sony pulls a worldwide launch
Both seem less than likely to occur, but my hopes are up for Sony.
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Psinext [E-mpire] Soldier 4 life...
Whats that artical supposed to show Sephiroth?Originally Posted by Sephiroth_VII
Press Start
Well, Sephiroth did say "maybe"...:splitspin
Only took two years to get this
Also, PSP wasn't playable until a month before launch at TGS. One thing I don't think Sony will f*ck up again with is the launch titles (and hopefully the shipments aswell) if PSP is an indication
God of Lego
Does anyone have video of the 1999 Sony Press Conference, I'd love to see it.
Resident Trooper
remember when there was that big wharehouse fire in 2000 and we could not get memory cards in the US for months
We the people...
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well, there are the tech demos if that is what you mean. they have been linked here many times. try googleing them. you can't but laugh on how TTT, GT and the others look compared to T5, GT4 and others. aaah, good memories. they get me excited about PS3 demos being surpassed rather quickly.Does anyone have video of the 1999 Sony Press Conference, I'd love to see it.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
- Lenny Bruce
God of Lego
Yeah, I've got those. They're fun to watch, mainly as all the game demos give you no idea of what we really had in store with PS2. What we actually got was so much better.
Citizen
Being realistic, I think Sony will probably start with a tug-o-war with the 360, and then hit its stride about September, based on a March-April launch window.
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it realy depends how fast can the big boys start showing up on PS3. MGS4 or FF13 are enough for an overkill.Being realistic, I think Sony will probably start with a tug-o-war with the 360, and then hit its stride about September, based on a March-April launch window.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
- Lenny Bruce
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