“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
Chinese Proverb.
Monthly Archives: August 2002
In May I started a Game Console Timeline. Here is the latest version.
August 28 2002 – Sony and Microsoft announce 17% price cut in Europe
June 25 2002 – Video games industry on track for projected increase of sales by 12 percent to $US31 billion
June 14 2002 – Sony cuts PS2 price to $399.95 in Australia
May 20 2002 – Microsoft announces it will invest $1 Billion in XBox Live game network
May 20 2002 – GameCube price cut in US (25%)
May 17 2002 – Gamecube hits stores in Australia
May 15 2002 – Electoric Arts plans to support Sony PS2 Online Gaming (articles : 1 2 )
May 15 2002 – XBox price cut announced for US and Japan (~30%)
May 14 2002 – PS2 price cut announced for US (~30%)
Apr 23 2002 – Gamecube price cut announced for Australia (~17%), pre-release
Apr 18 2002 – XBox price cut announced for Australia and Europe (38%)
Apr 18 2002 – Microsoft announce lower forecast for FY2002 from 4.5 – 6 Million to 3.5 – 4 Million units
Mar 2002 – XBox hits stores in Europe
Feb 2002 – XBox hits stores in Japan
Nov 18 2001 – Gamecube hits stores in US
Nov 15 2001 – XBox hits stores in US
Sep 26 2001 – PS2 price cut announced for Europe (~30%)
Jun 2001 – PS2 price cut announced for Japan (12%)
Oct 26 2000 – PS2 hits stores in US
Mar 1999 – PS2 unveiled in Japan
Please let me know if you think another date should be included.
Could the next Cola war be fought in the bathroom. The Pepsi Melanoma challenge.
“A study suggests that a skin lotion spiked with caffeine or with another compound found in green tea can reduce by more than half the number of cancer tumours on the skin of hairless mice exposed to brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation“. Caffeine may lower skin cancers .
