RobertoOrtiz
09-22-2004, 02:27 PM
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"Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. made separate product announcements Tuesday that the video game giants hope will attract more customers ahead of the highly competitive holiday shopping season.
Nintendo said its handheld device, called Nintendo DS, will arrive in North American stores for $149.99 on Nov. 21, 10 days before the product is launched in Japan.
Rival Sony, meanwhile, announced a much slimmer, reworked PlayStation 2 (news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22PlayStation%202%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw) - web sites (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=PlayStation%202)) designed to cut manufacturing costs amid fierce competition in the console market, which includes Nintendo's own GameCube and the Xbox (news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Xbox%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw) - web sites (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=Xbox)) from Microsoft Corp.
The DS and PS2 aren't competing against each other, but analyst PJ McNealy with American Technology Research said the timing of the announcements was important for both companies. December alone, McNealy said, typically accounts for about half of the industry's annual revenue, which now tops $10 billion annually. "
>>Link<< (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040922/ap_on_hi_te/gaming_machines)
-R
"Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. made separate product announcements Tuesday that the video game giants hope will attract more customers ahead of the highly competitive holiday shopping season.
Nintendo said its handheld device, called Nintendo DS, will arrive in North American stores for $149.99 on Nov. 21, 10 days before the product is launched in Japan.
Rival Sony, meanwhile, announced a much slimmer, reworked PlayStation 2 (news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22PlayStation%202%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw) - web sites (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=PlayStation%202)) designed to cut manufacturing costs amid fierce competition in the console market, which includes Nintendo's own GameCube and the Xbox (news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Xbox%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw) - web sites (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=Xbox)) from Microsoft Corp.
The DS and PS2 aren't competing against each other, but analyst PJ McNealy with American Technology Research said the timing of the announcements was important for both companies. December alone, McNealy said, typically accounts for about half of the industry's annual revenue, which now tops $10 billion annually. "
>>Link<< (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040922/ap_on_hi_te/gaming_machines)
-R