CES is always full of surprises – after all, it's the event where the tech world shows off its latest and greatest gadgets.
However, one device is turning heads for another reason. As reported by Sammobile, a walk past Samsung's CES 2025 stand might lead you to assume the Korean giant has somehow brokered a deal with Sony to relaunch the PS2 – but sadly, this isn't the case.
As Sammobile writer Mihai Matei explains:
When I first laid my eyes on the new Samsung Wireless One Connect box, I really thought Samsung brought a PS2 to CES. It almost felt like my brain glitched out and my heart skipped a beat. It took me a moment to realize the absurdity of what I was imagining.
Looking at the photo, you can forgive Matei's confusion. From a distance, the unit does indeed look a lot like the original PS2 model, right down to the fact that the power LED is located in the same place as the PlayStation logo.
The device is actually a lot smaller than Sony's 160 million-selling console, and it goes without saying that it doesn't play God of War or Gran Turismo 3; it's designed to reduce the tangle of wires behind your television by using WiFi 7 to stream your HDMI connection to your TV.
This year's CES has also seen Capcom and Bandai Namco join forces on a new handheld.
[source sammobile.com]
Comments 4
That's actually a pretty cool device if it has high enough bitrate and has very low latency.
A similar mould from a distance can look like something else.
From the pic, I totally get how you might think it could be a PS2. There is visual similarity. I like the idea of the box. It's something I've wished there was a better approach for. But, the thing needs to address the other issue of ports. Samsung has made the marketing decision to restrict the # of ports based on the class of TV. There's no technical reason to do this. My old 1080p HD TV w/o ARC is a 6000 series, so def lower end, but it has 4 hdmi ports. So much easier to connect multiple devices/consoles to than my newer tv. Now, unless you can spend >$1k, you're stuck with 1 e/ARC channel and 1 input for a console and that's it. That is not progress. That's share holder value at work.
Go Sony, launch the PS2 HD and relaunch it with physical Games.
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