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To: Just_Observing who wrote (81151)5/18/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
<The latest issue of the Economist says that the Wintel monopoly is threatened by game-makers such as Sony, Sega and Nintendo. No longer are those games only for children - the average age of the users is now over 21. More ominously, these game consoles have tremendous horsepower and versatility - they can be used to surf the net and play DVD movies while costing less than $400.>

I've always said that the game consoles are going to become the next set-top box. Like you said, they'll soon play DVD's and enable Web access in the living room. It easy to imagine how other home entertainment functions could also be integrated onto game consoles.

However, game consoles aren't going to replace PC's. Imagine your child trying to convince you to buy a Playstation so that he can "get onto the Web for school." Imagine trying to do your taxes on such a console. Imagine trying to download MP3 music files off the Net, only to find you can't store them without a separate storage device.

This isn't as much of a "threat" to the Wintel monopoly as the press makes it out to be. Nevertheless, I hope Intel has plans to try and get themselves onto game consoles, for this represents a pretty huge market.

Tenchusatsu
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