If you’re thinking of finally updating your Sega Genesis to a Playstation 2 like 50 million other gamers in the world have, you might want to wait just a bit. Sony’s updating the hardware to make it just a wee-bit better. The new Playstation will feature pretty much the same specs except that it will be a progressive-scan DVD player, will work better with DVD-RW and other burned media, and will have a built-in IR for the remote (a $20 option on PS2.0). In the process, the new playstation loses its Firewire port, which is no big deal because nobody figured out anything to use it for anyway. Granted these are all minor improvements, but at least it makes it easier to justify buying a $200 game and progressive DVD player over spending $150 on something that’s only a progressive DVD player
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