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February 25, 2000

Sony to sell PS2 Boards to arcade game makers
Posted by @ 8:00 AM, EST
From the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Friday morning edition:

"TOKYO --Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced Thursday that it plans to supply PlayStation2 circuit boards to manufacturers of arcade games.

The boards will enable the firms to develop games offering the same performance as SCE's new console. Arcade game makers have been clamoring for the powerful new boards, whose 128-bit processors have pulled home game consoles ahead in the performance race.

The move will allow SCE to market basic PlayStation2 components to arcade game producers and take advantage of economies of scale to lower its own costs."








Name:Irvin
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Comment: If you are refering to me thats because i am from Cyprus(a greek island so my english arent very good) and many times I type the wrong keyboard buttons




Name:Scythe99
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Comment: I think some people better learn how to spell properly. Anyway I think this is great taking some arcade share away from shitty sega! DC bites(I used to have the shit cast)




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Name:Irvin
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Comment: MeTaL=DeaTh I was refering to a previous Nintendo subject with Kituka.I put this comment here too so Kituka will see it because of the uptade of the site.




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Comment: Thank you ayz




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Comment: Thank you Shawn




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Comment: I AGREE WITH IRVIN!!!!




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Comment: Good notes Irvine...




Name:Irvin
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Comment: I have toa gree with you MeTaL=DeaTh.Thats realy COOL.Who knows.Maybe you could even take your ps2 memory card to the arcvades and use it with an arcade machine with the ps2 board.
Especially imagine PS2 graphics in the arcades.GREAT.




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Comment: yea Irvin,that will be cool to see PS2 boards in the arcade,,ahem!




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Comment: Ok you are right Kituka. Nintendos games are some of the best ever.BUT,many people said Metal gear solid was the greatest game ever made.I playied Final Fantasy,Metal gear solid ,Mario and Zelda.Zelda is a great game but the excitement i had wasnt enough to impress me and some of my friends.Final Fantasy7 and 8 were also the greatest games ever when they were first realesed.
Mario also is a very remarkable game but the gameplay is very common now.New platform games look and play as good as Mario64.Crash didnt impress me as a game.The character and graphics are very close to mario64.Crash is easier to play and Mario64 is more compex.I didnt like Crash as much as Mario64.Thats why i didnt mension crash as a game but us a character.I still hear Tekken3 is the best fighting game ever and gran turismo the best driving after gran turismo2.
I only heard Mario64 as the best game when it was first released.After some weeks (as i said before) its success droped very low.Also you mentioned only 2 succesful nintendo games.And the reason why there are many sequels is because people WANT SEQUELS.Zelda and Mario are old games too.Both games had sequels but nobody feels those games are old because they changed their forms from 2D to 3D and after their transformation there werent any sequels.Who said people dont want Mario64 2 or Zelda.?Metal Gear solid has revolutionary gameplay never seen before in an action games.It also introduced a new genre called Stealth type games.Gran turismo also have revolutionary gameplay as its the most realistic driving game ever.Its the game that revolutonised the way people see driving games.In EDGE only gan turismo and another game i dont know which it is, got 10/10.Fran turismo also won a programming award.Yes Tomp Raider is starting to get old.But the changes between the first and the last tomp raider games are enough to make people excited.To tell the truth I hate wrestling games.Resident Evil 1 2 as well as Nintendo games made it to the Guines records.Resident evil 3 is ready againg for a reentering to Guines as its sales are rapidly increasing.I playied Resident 1 2 3 and finished them all noticing each game has its major differences.Dont forget I like nintendo games but i hate Mario as a character.Zelda has revolutionary gameplay.Final Fantasy game have too.If an rpg doesnt have revolutionary gameplay then its not an rpg or atleast its not a succesful rpg.Games that developers didnt enjoy creating in my opinion is Dino Crisis and Tomp raider.Thats why Dino crisis is very similar to Resident evil 1 and Tomp Raider s big differences between previous Tomp raider games are the graphics.
By the way I hate Virtua Fighter.Did Nintendo create a good fighting game that atleast is as good as Segas VF?


When isaid i hate nintendo for its stupid games i mean childish and mario(character) as well as Yoshi ,Mario golf e.t.c.I liked Goldeneye ,Zelda starfox and Mario as games.Dont forget to read my comment i wrote before this one





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