The "Ultimate Weapon" - a Playstation 2 in the Wrong Hands

Monty - the one and only

In an ironic twist on Sony's website claims that calls the Playstation 2 "the ultimate weapon in the universe," both America and Japan have asked Sony not to sell the game console in China, because they fear it will be used by the Chinese military.

Although the claim may seem ridiculous, experts disagree. "Don't think of consoles, think of chips," an analyst said. "The danger is you are teaching [China] how to build" processors equivalent to Intel's.

There are other hidden dangers in Playstation 2. The DVD capability could allow hostile governments to crack encryption codes, the graphics capability is sufficient to control graphic missiles, and its broadband Internet service also poses a threat.

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ThrAx

good marketing ploy, kinda makes u wanna buy one doesn't it? Are they allowed to sell xbox's, gamecubes or geforce 3's in china?

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the fnj

They did the same to iraq. Americans were afraid of enough of them being linked to make a super computer.

richindub2

That seems a rather stupid way to try and stop china from trying to get the information though, IE. all they'd need is someone to buy a PS2 in the states and examen it over there, then send the info back to china.

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Shinji

1) The PS2 chipset consists of a relatively crappy processor and a VERY powerful pair of specialised graphics pipelines. So the only thing it could do would be projecting a lovely shiny image of the missile in flight, it wouldn't actually be much cop for guiding it...

2) It's one thing HAVING one of the things, but given how bloody hard all the developers are finding coding for 'em, we'd be safe from Chinese attack for years as they struggled to come to terms with the awful architecture...

chernobyl

Although the PS2 is not really that powerfull, it probably gives the most "bang for the buck" whether it be pc/console and as the system is designed for networking then multitasking with many machines networked gives you a super computer @ low price.
Buts whos gonna buy thousands of PS2 and network them?

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Kali

err just cos they're networked in no way makes them a supercomputer.. unless you go clustering the ps2s (which could be pretty easy, if they can run some form of linux as is rumored).

_CreeD_

Righty....so they wouldn't pick one up in their own hybrid city/biggest shopping center in the world of Hong Kong then. Guess the world's safe.

astrofool

they did the same with the iMAC ages ago, illegal to sell anything that can do a gigaflop/s to china (floating point wise)

maybe cluster all the unsold PS2's there will be in a couple of years when everyone realises how badly it is made (the memory architecture is the worst ever, big bandwidth, high latency, made worse by having to use small area's of data, so constant memory swapping in and out to get it to work (like hard disk thrashing)) EXCELLENTLY DESIGNED!!!