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Meet the PSX
By D.F. Smith May 28, 2003

Sony will release a new PlayStation 2-based console with TV recording and DVD burning capabilities within the coming fiscal year, the company announced at a strategic meeting today. Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi introduced the device as part of a broader strategy for SCE in Sony's ongoing reorganization. Dubbed the "PSX," it will combine the PS2's existing game-playing capabilities with a TV tuner, 120 gigabytes of hard drive space, a DVD-RW drive, and broadband Internet connection hardware to create a more well-rounded and capable media playing device.
The name "PSX" refers to the "crossover" nature of the system, combining the functions of as many as three or more devices into one. The PSX will be able to play games, play DVD movies, record television programs, download media from the Internet, record content to homemade CDs and DVDs, access photos and other data via a Memory Stick slot, and attach other peripherals through built-in USB 2.0 ports.

Early prototypes of the system, not representing the final design, are much larger than the regular PS2 console, with a simpler shape more reminiscent of stereo componentry. The back side of the device continues the home theater motif -- the prototype has two sets of RCA and S-Video outputs and a D-terminal output for high-definition video, along with the inputs and outputs already seen on the PS2. In a stylistic shift away from both game consoles and DVD players, though, the PSX features a slot-in DVD drive, rather than the linear-skate drive employed in the PS2.

The PSX does retain the PS2's ability to sit horizontally or vertically, resting either on a wide bottom or, curiously, on a pair of feet mounted on the back of the system. A vertically-oriented PSX appears to sit with its drive facing up and its outputs facing down, which would seem to be unworkable -- there wouldn't be enough clearance to keep the power, video, and controller cords from bumping into whatever surface the system rested on. It's possible that those feet raise the system high enough, however, or that such practical issues will be resolved in the final design

A bigger concern that many might have regarding the PSX is its potential as a tool for video and audio piracy. However, Sony plans to implement the latest in digital rights management protections in order to prevent copyright violation by its users. Kutaragi stated that Sony may use the PSX to take steps ahead of the market when it comes to DRM, introducing provisional specifications in areas where an industry standard has not been set.

Kutaragi refrained from revealing the system's final design and price, leaving that news for later this year. It will have to come soon, though, since Sony plans to roll out the PSX worldwide within fiscal 2003 -- in Japan by the end of the third quarter, and in the US and Europe by the end of the fourth quarter.

Edited by WetWired

Wow, Kuja, you forgot to say that you got this from us.playstation.com. Try not to forget next time

POST YOUR FUCKEN SOURCE EVERY TIME!

Hehe then he got nothing else to do , and try not to flame..

i dont believe it because production costs would be extremely high, thus making the console sell for a REAL high price, i price in which would lower potential customer's... think about it, a dvd burner costs like what 1k$?

hrm... It could be a low quality one, lowering the price (low quality burners? Hell I don't know) but if this is all true, screw a good car, I'm getting one of these!

No, get a car.

I am the world's Best news poster. But this is only the first step in my quest for the complete control of Zelaron.

hey i'll post a pic of it later i gotta get my cousins magaze from his house

They're making a FF7 sequel for it..

i think id the stupidest thing i have ever heard. who needs a video game console to burn dvds or view pictures? a video game console it for playing VIDEOI GAMES. not some stupid stuff like this. this thing will prob sell well only because people are stupid and they want some kind of mega console with built-in n00b stuff. PSX=5 times worse than XBox. Then microsoft will come out with something identical to the psx. SONY AND MICROSOFT DO NOT BELONG IN THE VIDEO GAME BUSINESS AT ALL!!! they are not video game companies at all. microsoft makes crap software and sony makes electronics. they take everything way too far until the console loses its orighinal purpose which is to play video games and nothing else.

I wholeheartedly agree. Some people are in it for the flash, or external appeal of it. You don't know how many times I have been in my school and heard "Gamecube is gay, X-box's look way cooler"

Money, money, money. They've lost touch with the gamer in an attempt to increase their cash flow.

Ahh...powerful you have become Sony. The dark side I sense in you...