The quiet in akihabara is decep-tive. Tokyo's electronics quarter, famous for a cubist profusion of stores hawking every imaginable gadget with every imaginable gimmick, has no balloons, posters or fliers promoting what one industry analyst predicts will be "the most successful consumer product ever launched." The only signs of the impending arrival of the machine that may supercharge interactive entertainment, democratize e-commerce, explode the DVD market and make the Sony company a dominant force in the Internet age are ubiquitous hand-scrawled notices near checkout counters that read, when translated, not taking advanced orders.
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