They are attracting a young audience first. Their components and concept are almost PCs. The newcomer from Seattle, the computer is their core competence.
But the new person from Seattle, and our old friend Nintendo, they have different concepts.
"I heard about these new consoles, yes," says the 51-year-old visionary, known affectionately as Ken-san, who engineered both PlayStations. And Kutaragi is determined to prove that his baby, the PlayStation 2, can withstand the threat of new competition from Nintendo and Microsoft. We are in SCEI's Tokyo headquarters, a few days after this season's surprisingly high-quality Tokyo Game Show. The smiling, dapper president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCEI) is talking, in his charmingly idiosyncratic way, about the future. 'Plus plus plus plus plus plus!" That, according to Ken Kutaragi, is the videogame business.
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