PlayStation 2 is not a PC, says Court of Appeal

Sony's PlayStation 2 is officially a games console and not a computer, according to an English court judgment that denies the electronics firm a €50m (£34.2m) rebate for import duties.

Sony has been pursuing legal action for five years in attempts to have the machine classified as a "digital processing unit" and not a games console. Games machines attracted an EU import duty of 1.7 per cent in 2001, falling year by year to zero by 2004; but computers attracted no duty in that time.

[USMChardcharger]

i have heard that this is the exact same reason for the push on calling the PS3 a computer.
great moral business ethics Sony.

[kingboy]

this strategy can work more with the ps3 cuz it already has linux in it

[The Real Deal]

Dreamcast had windows in it. Thus the windows logo on every dreamcast. Some cell phones have windows in it. Doesn't matter folks. Even the 360 has a custom operating system simular to xp but customized. But none of them classify as a computer. lol...Sony is just getting desperate to save a buck when their stock has been declining. I feel bad for them in a way. But then my parents taught me that "what comes around" "Go's around" Sonys business tactics have been based on Lies and now "its coming back around to bite them and possibly destroy them. You can only trick people for so long. Eventually people get a clue and see things for how they are.

[THAMMER1]

lol ha ha ha lol

[Lucidmantra]

Just because something has an operation system doesn't make it a PC. The main function of the PS2, and PS3, and xbox360 are entertainment. The MAIN function of a Personal Computer is productivity. SO I guess if one of the launch titles for the PS3 is Sony Office 2006 then it will be a PC. Yes it can browse the internet, yes it has LINUx but that does not a computer make. And the 360 uses so little of anything windows that it isn't really even able to be called XP or Vista it borrows what it needs but B. Gates dream of running XP was shot down in planning due to the massive memory hit running windows takes, it would leave very little of what the XB360 had to run games. Of course it will run it i bet but at what cost?

[TheMART]

It could. Maybe. I think it hurts it's image of a game console more (gamers are getting another console because they want to play games and don't want to own a new PC kind of thing in the living room) then it helps Sony gaining a little bit of money this way with taxes.

It gives me a feeling if Sony has lack of money, solvability and liquidity of money must be a problem. That's not a good sign with an expensive to produce PSZero with much loss on every console. If BetaBluRay would fail to get standard, then the problems of Sony can get really bad. They could go bankrupt over this big bet and that's not very wise of them

[OutLaw]

Does this mean that Sony owe money on some sort of taxes over the years.

[ironwolf]

32 million dollars worth.

[ironwolf]

That would be nearly 50 million dollars worth.

[USMChardcharger]

wow

[MoonDust]

It's a DVD player.

[Lucidmantra]

No its a BluRay DVD Player. Our movies are 50 GB and yours are 7 Gb but they play the same movie length and extras. /sarcasm off LMAO

The only thing i want to know is will i be looking for my next washer and dryer and see that it has a CELL in it?

[FamoAmo]

PS3 is no computer also!!

[kingboy]

it`s a computer for me.. i buy it to play blu ray and surf the web and also for linux ..i`m not a gamer..so it becomes a pc for me

[THAMMER1]

lol I cant belive you say you are no a bgamer when last month your were talking about how many games are better on the PS3. You do not know what you are just like the PS3. hd dvd/ pc lol/ game caonsole. lol ha ah lol

[Schmitty07]

Will you be typing term papers, and emailing from it? Can you then use your PS3 to print your essay? I don't think so.

[Lucidmantra]

LMAO... PS3s around the world hooked up to inkjets printing out term papers. Anybody who is going to pay $600 for a PS3 plus about $300 for it to function as a PC is not thinking straight because you can buy a pretty decent DELL for that price, or any number of other PC's that function as PCs out of the box they are shipped or received in from the store. And yes there are PCs out there with BluRay in them right now. Surfing the net on a console didnt work for the Dreamcast and it won't be a massive issue that people come to buy a PS3 for either.

[THAMMER1]

O.K. I think he will get it now.

[THELANDSOFSAND]

well then, you could just buy a blu ray dvd player for your pc as games are so clearly not important to you. So deeply unimportant that you go to a game news site and post messages regularly.

[clayton]

Sony are nothing but a bunch of cheap losers, as for Kingboy, you are a loser as well, the PS3 isn't a PC, it is a game console, hence "PLAYSTATION". They didn't get away with it then and they won't get away with it now. I guess since you can hook a keyboard to the 360, and the hard drives are inter-changeable,and it is running a stripped down version of XP, then i guess that makes it a PC as well. LOL

[kingboy]

lol whose this [email protected] calling names..me looser? lol who`s pissed! not me..what`s the definition of a pc u [email protected]? use google a little.ur just mad because it`s playstation .

[PS360PCROCKS]

huh?

[THELANDSOFSAND]

its sad how sony have to keep telling lies to keep their company running.

it looks like karma is a b1tch.

[96impala]

lol sony is wild. I mean yeah these gaming consoles are becoming more and more sophisticated but when its said and done they are just that. Gaming consoles.