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I probably won't buy PS2 but after thinking about it I can't help but feel Sony are making a dreadful mistake by having a dual release date. When PS2 is released in october or whenever it comes out people will see what it is like and the hype surrounding it will start to decrease as people look forward to the next consoles to arrive. Most consoles sell a large percentage of their games of the hype surrounding its release by making it mail order for 4 months they are obviously going to have poorer sales as the machine will only be owned by a few peopl many shops won't stock many PS2 games till after christmas making games harder to obtain and making the console seem worse. I think that they should have delayed the whole console until the shop release date to encourage more sales off the hype and to allow games developers another four months to complete games and so the PS2 will have even more great games on its release date making it more attractive to the average console buyer.
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I probably won't buy PS2 but after thinking about it I can't help but feel Sony are making a dreadful mistake by having a dual release date. When PS2 is released in october or whenever it comes out people will see what it is like and the hype surrounding it will start to decrease as people look forward to the next consoles to arrive. Most consoles sell a large percentage of their games of the hype surrounding its release by making it mail order for 4 months they are obviously going to have poorer sales as the machine will only be owned by a few peopl many shops won't stock many PS2 games till after christmas making games harder to obtain and making the console seem worse. I think that they should have delayed the whole console until the shop release date to encourage more sales off the hype and to allow games developers another four months to complete games and so the PS2 will have even more great games on its release date making it more attractive to the average console buyer.