SCEA has announced that it has sold over 25 million PlayStation 2 consoles in North America to date, with 2.6 million of them enabled for online play and a million gamers using PS2 online gaming services. "While our competitors strive to meet the new standards we've laid before them, our focus remains fixed on driving the momentum of our platform and the industry forward," commented SCEA president Kaz Hirai. In other words, this is Sony's distinctly unconcerned response to recent announcements from Nintendo (which stated this week that the GameCube has sold out in many retailers in the USA, with emergency supplies being shipped in from overseas) and Microsoft (which has been celebrating having 750,000 Xbox Live users, with a target of a million by June).
Sales of the PlayStation 2 are expected to drop off during 2004 as the console is now widely believed to have passed its peak selling period. However, sales of software on the platform are forecast to remain strong by most market watchers, while the uptake of the company's online offering is likely to grow as new online titles arrive on the market and long-term PS2 owners seek new uses for their existing console.
News source: Gamesindustry.biz
Sales of the PlayStation 2 are expected to drop off during 2004 as the console is now widely believed to have passed its peak selling period. However, sales of software on the platform are forecast to remain strong by most market watchers, while the uptake of the company's online offering is likely to grow as new online titles arrive on the market and long-term PS2 owners seek new uses for their existing console.
News source: Gamesindustry.biz
The 32 bit version supports Drag&Drop from and to explorer/desktop, delete to the recycle bin, and Explorer style context menus/property sheets. FTP servers on the Internet can be accessed like local drives.A configurable directory hotlist (bookmarks) and history list make directory navigation easier.
The sync function allows to synchronize two complete directory trees, and the compare function shows the difference of two binary or text files highlighted side by side. The new parallel port connection works between any combination of Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000/XP, Windows 3.1 and even DOS through a separate server.
NOTE: The update is still free for all registered users (also of Windows Commander)
What's New in This Release:
- Fixed: With file panels above each other, the mouse wheel may have scrolled the wrong window
- Fixed: Ctrl+Q on drive in "My Computer" turned off quick view permanently
I expect a lot of those users to drop their accounts when their 1 year trial is over. ;D Go Sony.
There is no 1 year trial - when people got the Live starter pack for £39.99 (or whatever they payed in their countries) that was the cost for a years worth of Live play. It wasent a "free trial" it was the real deal. And it's still that price today. You can either pay another £39.99 for the next year, or £4.99 a month if you're not sure you want the full year. That's just over the price of a game, for a FULL year of all those downloads, addictive online games, voice chat in every game, standard features througout the software titles.
Go Sony? What have they done for the online gaming market other than make people pay extra for each game subscription, give them loads of lag, poor features and crap games to play online with? Sony's Online "service" is pathetic.
Also, the lag will not be due to sony since wach game company will use their own servers. Get your facts straight man!
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So about 10% of people who own a PS2 play it online.
About 5% of the people who own an Xbox play it online, and they have to pay for it.
So who do you think has the real win here? I doubt as many people would go online with their PS2 if they had to pay for it.
What standards?
Xbox Live is much nicer than Sony's online scheme...
xbox live pros and cons
pros - you get a good network to play on, voice communication, chat, etc
cons - they charge money for something that has always been free on a computer and playstation 2 now
Ps2 -
pros - you get free service, chat, voice, good service
cons - some peeps run 56k lag the server down, and many people cheat
If I where microsoft considering that there going to do very poor with xbox next because its not going to have a hdd id want to just give the xbox live users free service....
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