Why Harry Potter cannot be set in 1991-?

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 79243

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sebfish5" <redfish5 at o...> 
wrote:
> This has probably been mentioned before but I have seen no sign of 
> it. Harry Potter, as worked out by the fans, is set in 1991, due to 
> the deathday cake. However, in book one (which I have leant, along 
> with 2, to a unbeliever, so I cannot give exact quotations)
>  
> "You could let me stay in the house?" said harry hopefully, he 
could 
> watch dudleys T.V and maybe have a go on dudleys playstation for 
> change.
> 
>  In 1991, unless I am VERY much mistaken, being a videogame player, 
> the playstation 1 was not around. Please correct me if I am wrong, 
> but I am 99% sure that the playstation was not released six years 
> before the N64, on may 1st 1997.
> 
>  If i am correct, then when is Harry Potter set, or has this 
> argument been cleared up?
> 


Actually in the edition I have, it says computer.  However, I'm 
pretty sure in one of the other books, it says something about Dudley 
chucking his playstation and then being upset because he couldn't 
play it.  

Serena