61.  Still, game players are willing to spend hundreds of dollars, even thousands, for vestigial goods.

62.  Sony Corp. is poised to report record group profit growth as demand soared for its PlayStation game players and digital video cameras while the dollar gained against the yen.

63.  Sony Corp. is poised to report record growth in profits after sales of its PlayStation game players and digital video cameras soared.

64.  Ten, as the network is known, is a San Francisco-based start-up company that has registered thousands of game players for its Internet-based service.

65.  The company is releasing new games for its earlier game players to beef up sales over Christmas.

66.  The company said the fall in profits was due to declining sales of its older video game equipment after the new Saturn game player was released late last year.

67.  The company will sell off the old game players at a loss.

68.  The company also reduced the price of its Saturn home game player in the face of stiff competition.

69.  The company, based in Houston, said the new system was being marketed primarily to computer game players seeking highly detailed, fast-moving graphics.

70.  The DVD format is new for Nintendo, which has used specialized cartridges in previous versions of its game players.