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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90625)	1/31/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571039

Tench, I still have a very tough time seeing how that thing will compete against Sony's Playstation II. One word: mindshare. (Or is that two?) As alluded to in that ZDNET article, one of the advantages of an X-Box would be its use of PC software. How well this works is another topic of discussion...but there are clear advantages of this approach over a new proprietary platform (the alternative). With limited resources, developers and publishers must pick and choose for which platforms they will develop titles; pc is often already in the mix. Playstation II is a very promising product. As you may know, it will be backward compatible with current PS titles. IMO, I'm still skeptical about Athlon being in the box. As discussed on the thread before, consoles generally do not have very powerful (in pc standards) processors because they are dedicated to a single task...have simples OS's...etc. Perhaps MS needs Athlon because of the PC-platform decision..... Should be interesting. -Scot

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90625)	1/31/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Y. Samuel Arai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571039

Tench: Re: I still have a very tough time seeing how that thing will compete against Sony's Playstation II. It will have the largest selection of games, as it will run regular PC-based games...that's how it'll compete. On top of that, software engineers will be able to fine-tune their games for this console, instead of having to write their code to be playable on everything from a Pentium 233MMX to an Athlon 1000mhz.