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To: Joe NYC who wrote (94554)	2/22/2000 11:04:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573827

Cirruslvr, Panic and Joe, One comment on the X-Box: a royalty scheme would explain a proprietary format. And it might also create a viable business model for MSFT, but I still am not convinced it would benefit AMD. The royalty scheme is also problematic for publishers who do not like paying royalties to console manufacturers for games they spent $5-7 million to develop. More 3dnow games is all well and good, but I've always seen 3dnow as a means to compensate for the k6-2's poor fp performance. If the X-Box is proprietary, who is to say that it will even be compatible with the pc? Certainly a royalty scheme on X-Box software would be difficult to implement if the software were cross-platform. -Scot