The console war between Sony Corp and Sega Co has hit fever pitch. Sony Corp has announced the launch date of the much- vaunted Playstation 2, while Sega said that the first 24 hours of Dreamcast sales exceeded its wildest expectation.
The Playstation 2 will be available on March 4 of 2000 in Japan – three months later than originally planned – with a fall launch in the US and Europe. The company expects to initially ship one million units in Japan.
Meanwhile, Sega made nearly $97m in sales in the first day that its Dreamcast console was available in the US. It initially said that it expected to make around $45m on first day sales. However, the Maximum PC web site says that users have been complaining of a hardware glitch that makes some games unplayable on the new machine. Sega has acknowledged the problem and said that it had been traced to a manufacturing problem at one of its plants.
