– Chris Morris, CNN Staff Writer I Know Bunnie-Fu
“ launches war against Sony for control of the living room.” That new competitor was Microsoft, an American company playing in a Japanese company’s game. On the tail of Sony announcing the technical specs on their machine, rumors of a new competitor entering the “console wars” began to spread. Their heavy cloud of influence over gamers meant that the next generation of games wasn’t going to start in until the PS2 was on store shelves. They had already sold more units of the original PlayStation than all of their competition combined. Sony was poised to take control of the videogame console market once again.
We were torn between anxiety - the impending Y2K bug bringing the end of civilization that Prince prophesied - and anticipation: the forthcoming release of the PlayStation 2. Unconventional popstars like Moby supplied electronica to the mainstream airwaves while audiences contemplated whether computers were the true enemy after seeing The Matrix. The turning of the millenium permeated every facet of pop culture. The millennium: a term that few had any use for before 1999, yet seemingly overnight it was everywhere.
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