Introduction to Philosophy

Is Playstation a computer?

"Sony appeared yesterday to have lost a long-running battle to get its popular PlayStation 2 games console recognised as a personal computer...

Sony was not splitting hairs for the sake of hair-splitting; its motives were purely mercenary. The import tariff for computers coming into the European Union is much lower than that for games consoles and a ruling that the PlayStation 2 was a computer could have forced customs authorities to pay back millions in duties."

Sony argued that the machine "contained a PC-comparable microprocessor which allows it to process data just like a computer."

But, finding against Sony, the Court said the definition of a computer could not be stretched to include a PlayStation. "It is quite clear that it is intended mainly to be used to run video games."

Source: The Guardian 01:10:03

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