Sony says new PlayStation means game over for Microsoft

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2005

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Japanese giant Sony said that despite coming later to the bout, its newly unveiled PlayStation 3 games console packs enough punch to deliver a knock-out blow to Microsoft's rival offering.

Kaz Hirai, the charismatic boss of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said after it was unveiled at an industry expo here late Tuesday that the details of the new PlayStation's product launch were still being worked out.

In an interview with the CNBC network, Hirai denied that Sony had already decided to start selling the console only in Japan next spring, before releasing it in North America in the autumn.

"We haven't determined which territory we will go with first this time around just yet," he said.

"We will have to look at development and...