CHIBA -- Sony Corp. announced Tuesday it will introduce its "crossover" game console and home entertainment unit on the domestic market for the yearend shopping season.

The consumer electronics giant, suffering lackluster performance recently, hopes the product, known as the PSX, will provide a much-needed jolt.

The machine -- a hard-disk drive combined with a DVD-recordable PlayStation2 -- will start at a suggested retail price of 79,800 yen. This model carries a 160 gigabyte drive.