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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96042)3/1/2000 2:15:00 PM
From: Epinephrine  Read Replies (1) of 1570842
 
RE: <Also, developing for both the PC and the X-Box is much more difficult than you think. PC game developers are already going out of their minds trying to debug a game on many possible PC configurations out there. Trust me on this. The idea of X-Box is that developers will have an easier time because they'll target one config. To develop for both the X-Box and the PC in general takes away that advantage, and we're back to square one again.>

Tenchusatsu,

If you flip that statement around then isn't it exactly the reason why the XBox could be such a potent competitor. If the XBox is set up correctly then it simply becomes just one more PC configuration to be debugged for and since as you say..."PC game developers are already going out of their minds trying to debug a game on many possible PC configurations out there." it would be trivial to include the XBox as just another of those configurations and thus leverage existing PC game development efforts.

Thanks,

Epinephrine
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