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Sony has announced a new Playstation 2 model called the PSX (this is not the PS3) with proprietary OS, DVD/RW capabilities, and a hard disk drive. It has built in ethernet, a memory stick slot, and the DVD drive is slot loading (nice). The PSX can record television shows and may have some other broadcast functions that will only work in Japan. It will also interface with the upcoming Sony handheld gaming system, the PSP. What confuses me is why Sony would call this new powered-up Playstation 2 the PSX? PSX was the original prelaunch name for the Sony PlayStation. The “PS-X” evolved out of the name of the original, unreleased PlayStation, which was to be a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo. (Nintendo told Sony to nevermind after much of the work was already done over a licensing dispute, so rather than waste the R&D cost, Sony became the competition.) The “PlayStation X” project evolved into the system that was released by Sony on Sept 9, 1995, the PSX, or what most everone calls the original PlayStation. Calling this new system PSX seems weird, but who am I to argue with a company that spends 6 billion dollars a year on research and development? Personal note: R&D is why Sony is the leader in the gaming industry right now. Sony plans to succeed and succeeds. Microsoft does not plan and tries to learn from its mistakes and fails, then tries again and again. Nintendo just sits back and watches it all. |
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