Sony to launch new, lighter PlayStation 2
TOKYO - SONY announced plans to start selling a new, lighter version of its PlayStation 2 video game console just in time for the crucial end-of-year shopping season.
Tue, Nov 06, 2007
The newly designed PlayStation 2 will hit stores in Japan on Nov 22 with a recommended price tag of 16,000 yen (S$203), Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said in a statement.
'While inheriting the functions of the current PlayStation 2, the internal design architecture of the new system has been completely overhauled, resulting (in a console that is) lighter in weight,' it said.
The launch comes as the PlayStation 3, the successor to the PS2, battles fierce competition from Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360. -- AFP