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Sony Rumours
Taken from over at http://rllmuk.com
A developer of Sony has mentioned some tidbits on
the PlayStation line of consoles. PlayStation 3 will be backward
compatible with PS2, but will no longer backward compatible with
PSone, and the PSone production will be stopped in 2005. Sony
intends to support 2 consoles on the market at the same time, e.g.
PS2 and PSone, PS3 and PS2.
The PlayStation Portable PSP will launch in 4th quarter of 2004,
the Universal Media Disc will be smaller than GameCube mini-DVDs
and PC mini-CDRs on the market, it will have 64MB of Memory, MP3
support, limited PDA functionality and USB 2.0 interface for data
download.
PSX is a Sony Corp. product, not SCE, it will be marketed as a
home theater entertainment component, the retail price will be
roughly at $850 or 102,000 yen.