PSXIGN reports that the Japanese Playstation 2 will ship on January 23, 2000 for a price of $US 391. Ever since the system's first peices of information were released, rumors of the release date being December 3, 1999 floated around. Sony plans to ship over 400,000 units upon the day of Lavos. Not enough to meet the demandss, Sony will ship a total of 1 million by the end of march.

    Games will also be selling for around $70. According to the PSXIGN report, there will be three to four completely new launch titles and as many as seven upgraded Playstation 1 games.