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Attention to our readers from Brazil. It’s time to retire your SNES or whatever you’ve been gaming on for the past 20 years, because today in your territory Sony has officially released the future of all video game hardware… the Playstation 2 (PS2).

For only R$799 ($465) you can pick up the world’s most successful console to date, with a library of over 2000 titles including Metal Gear Solid 2, Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3 & The Simpson: Skateboarding. The PS2 is truly a revolutionary piece of hardware but don’t take my word for it, here is an excerpt from article from CNN written in 1999.

The PlayStation 2 will be powered by a microprocessor faster than those found in the most advanced PCs and will be capable of providing motion-picture quality images, according to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Simbun.  The console will use DVDs to store data. This will result in a storage capacity nearly eight times that of the CD-ROMs currently used by PlayStation machines.  Sony is the world’s dominant console-gaming company, PlayStation 2 is claiming to be able to handle 50 times more 3-D image data than the Dreamcast, allowing it to create characters similar in appearance to those in the Walt Disney film “Toy Story.”

Considering “Toy Story quality graphics” has yet to be achieved in the rest of the world (even by the PS3), I think it’s safe to say you’re getting a huge bargain. Now excuse me while I step 9 years into the future…

Written By Carl Daniel

Gamertag & PSN ID: KRyPTceltrix // Email: CDaniel@TheKoalition.com