We can reveal that the PlayStation 2 will be a broadband-only gaming service when it launches in the UK later this year.
Indeed, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has today announced its first concrete plans around bringing its long awaited PlayStation 2 online services to the UK, following Microsoft’s online limelight-basking that has been taking place recently.
SCEE intends to begin a full-scale public beta test, scheduled to commence on March 31 of this year.
In a press release issued today, Sony said, “To join the PlayStation 2 network gaming trial community, consumers must have a PlayStation 2 and a broadband connection. They must register their interest to participate in the trials by visiting uk.playstation.com and completing an online questionnaire. If subsequently accepted as a trial member they will then be able to purchase a starter kit comprising: PlayStation 2 Network Adaptor, SOCOM USB Headset, and a special online only version of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs.”
This understandably raised our collective monobrow, as a narrowband option, as offered to American gamers, was expected across the board in broadband-backwards Europe.
Speaking today, SCEE marketing chief David Wilson said, “In Europe the service will be broadband only. The American arm took a different route, we know, but in Europe the service will be a broadband service.”
We’ll bring you more about PS2 online in the coming weeks.
Indeed, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has today announced its first concrete plans around bringing its long awaited PlayStation 2 online services to the UK, following Microsoft’s online limelight-basking that has been taking place recently.
SCEE intends to begin a full-scale public beta test, scheduled to commence on March 31 of this year.
In a press release issued today, Sony said, “To join the PlayStation 2 network gaming trial community, consumers must have a PlayStation 2 and a broadband connection. They must register their interest to participate in the trials by visiting uk.playstation.com and completing an online questionnaire. If subsequently accepted as a trial member they will then be able to purchase a starter kit comprising: PlayStation 2 Network Adaptor, SOCOM USB Headset, and a special online only version of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs.”
This understandably raised our collective monobrow, as a narrowband option, as offered to American gamers, was expected across the board in broadband-backwards Europe.
Speaking today, SCEE marketing chief David Wilson said, “In Europe the service will be broadband only. The American arm took a different route, we know, but in Europe the service will be a broadband service.”
We’ll bring you more about PS2 online in the coming weeks.
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