how I somehow screwed over EB

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

1) if you bothered reading my post, I didnt pay anyone any money for the system
2) the reason why they didnt release this size of a system at launch is because with the current technology, they simply couldnt

They dont have the technology!? HA!

They can make MP3 players the size of half of a pencil(length), portable PSones(basically), ipods that can carry thousands of songs, but yet they cannot microsize the PS2.

HA!

[Joeiss]

I'm sure they could get better, smaller parts into the system at release date... but then wouldn't it cost a bunch more?

Sony is just taking a page out of Nintendo's book. GameBoy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy colour, etc etc.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Joeiss

Sony is just taking a page out of Nintendo's book.

Actually, its not just sony. making a smaller version late in its life is not a new thing by far...

NES had a smaller version
SNES had a smaller version
Genesis had a smaller version
Genesis/SegaCD had a combo smaller system that doubled as a CD walkman.

not just the gameboys.
its because they can get smaller parts at a cheaper price that are just too expensive to do when it launches.

And there some quite good reasons for switching to the small one, the PStwo, is 70% quieter, and i hear it loads games faster than the normal PS2.

On the subject of flip lids verse trays, flip lids are better, they have faster easier loading, less things to go wrong, allow for the console to be smaller because it doesnt need the motor and extra parts for the slide out. Plus it allows you to do more by making it easier to use boot discs. old ps2 version was a pain to use a boot disc on, they had some, but you had to take off the front panel, use some hook tool and pull the tray out manually, because the system restarts if you just press eject.

[Perfect Stu]

Typh...they couldnt make the PS2 smaller in 1999. Well, maybe a LITTLE...but it would have probably added to manufacturing costs.

Did Microsoft just FEEL like making the XBox as big as it is? NO...they HAD to make it approx that size to fit the tech inside of it.

But DM is right, they should, by now, have found a way to make a smaller system.

Sony has found ways of minimizing costs and potential size of the PS2 technology, so they naturally release a smaller version of it. What part of that DONT you understand?

[Acebot44]

I think there was some talk (or maybe just my imagination) of Microsoft releasing a smaller version of the Xbox. I don't really see a point in making it smaller though.

Any 12 year old girl could move an xbox and it's not like we (or at least me) need to rearrange our consoles a lot.