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To: Scumbria who wrote (98181)	3/12/2000 9:56:00 PM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (2) of 1570842

"X-box games will likely be optimized for SSE, making AMD clones impossible." I can only hope that what MSFT (& Intel) did to Gigapixel and AMD will not be easily forgotten. Gamers may publicly embrace the X-Box, but they would be quite foolish to let MSFT and Intel define the future of the market. The profit is not going to be on the hardware, but on the games themselves (and possible connections to the Internet). If the gaming community becomes dependent on the X-Box and optimizes its best software for it, MSFT could one day take all their profit by charging licensing fees for the sale of each game. MSFT is not doing this as a charity activity, and I'm sure is imposing licensing fees (for now at a nominal rate) in its development contracts with gamers. MSFT will find a way to make a killing on the product and essentially taxing the gamers is the easiest way for it to do so. With that in mind, it is in the interest of software developers to continue to work closely with AMD and support alternative instructions and platforms.

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