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"PS2.1 .... Unknown Quantity ... ?"

Okay... Now, I know I'm going to get flamed for not knowing this...

And to be honest... it'll be quite a fair responce...

All the same...

Sony have decided to go ahead with the PS2.1...

What does this mean for current PS2 owners?

Whats going to happen with the future titles?

I have no idea what the alteration in the spec is... so I'm not sure what the implications are...

Anyone know what the changes are... and what this entails for the PS2 public?

Grix of all people should pardon the previous rant, as he's living proof that there is hope.

Fishstick wrote:
> I don't want to sound biased but it can't be helped
>
> SONY suck
>
> I don't see Nintendo doing things like that


So you never had to buy any add-on to play any N64 games then? Say, ooh, a video RAM add-on because Nintendo didn't put enough in in the first place?

Also, can you people never contribute to a reasonalble discussion without dragging it down to the level of one platform versus another? What makes you all so insecure?

Through all of the forums, 80% of the time, a Nintendo owner has to resort to snide comments about another platform - not just Sony, but any platform. Sometimes Sega fans, but nowhere near as often.

Look through all of the machine-specific forums and you'll see Console X versus Console Y. The significant absence of such topics is in the PlayStation forum, and in the PS2 forum such topics are always started by Nintendo or Sega fans.

I know there are PS2 idiots too, but they seem to be far less in number - particularly on these forums.

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it isn't the games on Nintendo that have given it the childish image - maybe it's down to the average Ninty owner!

I don't want to sound biased but it can't be helped

SONY suck

I don't see Nintendo doing things like that

Ninty rule

Another beautiful mess up by SONY!

That is exactly what i said

The changes made to the PS1 were minor internal changes and the removal of some mostly-unused connectors, such as the parallel I/O port and eventually the serial port which the link cable used. None of these changes affected graphics or gameplay, and certainly didn't prevent any games from functioning.

The changes mentioned for the PS2 are potentially far more significant, and would certainly require some kind of official announcement.

Ok, everyone must remember the Playstation and when it was reeased, well two years after it's release date they changed a it a little to get rid og=f the glitches that they new about. They did not change the name of the it but they did make the changes. Because these changes were not that significant they did not release this information officially.

One of the changes was were you put the cheat cartridges i can't remember when but they got rid of it for some reason.

So that what the PS2.1 is just a improved PS2 with no glitches and not all PS2 games can be played on it

it woudnt be released for a while would it? i mean how long was it after psx that psone came along. But i suppose its completly different isnt it?

Does anyone have a source for this information? I can't see it on any of the sites I usually visit.

Personally I'll be treating much of this as nonsense until there's an official announcement with some facts, instead of speculation.

No-one yet knows exactly what the "PS2.1" is.

No-one knows how it will work.

No-one knows exactly what it will do.

No-one knows how much it will cost (if anything - it might be an upgrade of some kind).

I know for sure that it is not an espansion pak