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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (18325)	2/21/2000 2:07:00 PM
From: 993racer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Thanks for the replies, however, the reason why I now nominated Sony was the fact the the PS2 will have a chip that will spurn more bowling alleys and possbily more tornadoes. The new PS2 has one of the most if not the most sophisticated CPU's available to consumers (even better than the PIII). The cheapest and best way to intorduce technology to the home is through kids IMO. After the kids already have the PS2 in the home, the adults will have uses for it too...ie. it is a DVD player , it will be net-able like WebTV...is GMSt involved? The PS2 will be the catalyst for internet/tv etc..services that we all hear about. Again the problem is that SONY has no plans to spin this into a tracking stock yet. racer

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (18325)	2/21/2000 2:45:00 PM
From: Grantcw	Respond to of 54805

Hello Mike, My understanding is that these CE manufacturers depend on software developers to write games for use on their hardware. If that's true, it's an open architecture to some extent. If they provide third-party manufacturers the specs needed for building hardware add-ons, it would be considered even more of an open architecture. You're correct. I was using the wrong term. I always get the open/closed term confused. The console manufacturers do, from what I understand, depend on software developers to write games for their hardware. I'm unsure about the hardware add-ons, because up until this latest generation of consoltes, the only add-ons have been basically joysticks and an odd cd-rom add-on. Thanks, cw