directo de ign... marzo 1999:
Sony Ensures PS2 Net Use
Sony Japan strategizes Internet partners and integration.
by Douglass C. Perry
March 15, 1999 - In another interview with the Nikkei Sangyou Shimbun, number two President of SCE (Sony Japan), Hisata-shacho, admitted that, while he personally has no interest in the Internet, the company is ensuring that the PS2 will have unparalleled connectivity capabilities.
Employing a networking strategy that, it says is pivotal to the whole PlayStation concept,
SCE is working with partners such as Digital Networking Solutions and Sky Perfect TV Satellite Communications, to move toward the provision of a whole host of digital provisioning via the PS2. This will include the delivery of movies, music, financial services and insurance to users on demand.
Hisata-shacho's own belief is that the trumpeting of the 'peripheral' or extended capabilities of a game console can be a sign of weakness and betray failure in the marketplace (as in the case of Matsushita's 3DO and Bandai's Pippin). That said, however, SCE will not fall short. With this planned networking ability and the connection options (to PCs, portable computers, STBs, digital cameras and so forth) using LSI Logic's I/O processor, the PlayStation 2 looks set to finally realize the provision of centralized, multi-sourced information through a single box that others in the industry have long been predicting.
As a side note, Sony has, over the past year, been the driving force behind the production of an absolutely enormous number of digital patents, security processes and other controls that safeguard against piracy and secure ownership of digital source material -- all, of course, measures to protect income derived from their products -- so expect some fierce anti-piracy protection measures in the successor to the PlayStation.
y esta es la otra:
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/073/073204p1.html