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News just in. Sony are having a row with our very own HM Customs and Excise department over the classification of what a PS2 really is. The Customs say it is a videogames player because it is 'not all that different from the Playstation which Sony launched in 1995'. (I am quoting directly here.) Sony, on the other hand, are slightly miffed by this to say the least. They say that with its 128-bit microprocessor and DVD capability it should be classed as a computer, not as a videogames player.
Now, as gamers, we all know exactly what the PS2 is. A games console, right? Then what are Sony playing at?
The truth has dawned. If the PS2 is classed as a videogames player, Sony will have to bear the brunt of an extra 2.2% tax to export it to the UK; if it is classed as a computer, they won't have to pay this extra money, which would add considerably to the losses that the Sony Corporation have already incurred over the launch of the PS2. This news, whichever way you look at it, is bad for gamers. Although Sony won't pass on the extra 2.2% to us gamers by hiking the price of the console, they will eventually find a way of clawing this lost revenue back. But, worst of all, all of us gamers know full well that there is a distinct difference between computers and game consoles, and the PS2 is definitely the latter variety of machine, so are Sony betraying us on the quiet by insisting it's a computer on the one hand and marketing it to us as a games machine on the other? Looks like it to me.
Now, as gamers, we all know exactly what the PS2 is. A games console, right? Then what are Sony playing at?
The truth has dawned. If the PS2 is classed as a videogames player, Sony will have to bear the brunt of an extra 2.2% tax to export it to the UK; if it is classed as a computer, they won't have to pay this extra money, which would add considerably to the losses that the Sony Corporation have already incurred over the launch of the PS2. This news, whichever way you look at it, is bad for gamers. Although Sony won't pass on the extra 2.2% to us gamers by hiking the price of the console, they will eventually find a way of clawing this lost revenue back. But, worst of all, all of us gamers know full well that there is a distinct difference between computers and game consoles, and the PS2 is definitely the latter variety of machine, so are Sony betraying us on the quiet by insisting it's a computer on the one hand and marketing it to us as a games machine on the other? Looks like it to me.
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News just in. Sony are having a row with our very own HM Customs and Excise department over the classification of what a PS2 really is. The Customs say it is a videogames player because it is 'not all that different from the Playstation which Sony launched in 1995'. (I am quoting directly here.) Sony, on the other hand, are slightly miffed by this to say the least. They say that with its 128-bit microprocessor and DVD capability it should be classed as a computer, not as a videogames player.
Now, as gamers, we all know exactly what the PS2 is. A games console, right? Then what are Sony playing at?
The truth has dawned. If the PS2 is classed as a videogames player, Sony will have to bear the brunt of an extra 2.2% tax to export it to the UK; if it is classed as a computer, they won't have to pay this extra money, which would add considerably to the losses that the Sony Corporation have already incurred over the launch of the PS2. This news, whichever way you look at it, is bad for gamers. Although Sony won't pass on the extra 2.2% to us gamers by hiking the price of the console, they will eventually find a way of clawing this lost revenue back. But, worst of all, all of us gamers know full well that there is a distinct difference between computers and game consoles, and the PS2 is definitely the latter variety of machine, so are Sony betraying us on the quiet by insisting it's a computer on the one hand and marketing it to us as a games machine on the other? Looks like it to me.
Now, as gamers, we all know exactly what the PS2 is. A games console, right? Then what are Sony playing at?
The truth has dawned. If the PS2 is classed as a videogames player, Sony will have to bear the brunt of an extra 2.2% tax to export it to the UK; if it is classed as a computer, they won't have to pay this extra money, which would add considerably to the losses that the Sony Corporation have already incurred over the launch of the PS2. This news, whichever way you look at it, is bad for gamers. Although Sony won't pass on the extra 2.2% to us gamers by hiking the price of the console, they will eventually find a way of clawing this lost revenue back. But, worst of all, all of us gamers know full well that there is a distinct difference between computers and game consoles, and the PS2 is definitely the latter variety of machine, so are Sony betraying us on the quiet by insisting it's a computer on the one hand and marketing it to us as a games machine on the other? Looks like it to me.
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