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To: Steve Lee who wrote (100047)	2/29/2000 9:39:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Steve, oh, so the Microsoft X-box wants to compete with Sony PSII? I haven't followed it. In that case, PSII looks like a white hot product, and those usually do attract a lot of competition. Tony

To: Steve Lee who wrote (100047)	2/29/2000 11:07:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"I am sure MS wouldn't launch an inferior product ..." Right. ;-)

To: Steve Lee who wrote (100047)	2/29/2000 2:46:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, <If so, I don't think even IA64 would be able to compete.> Actually, IA-64 would be plain overkill for a gaming console. The floating-point performance of IA-64 is impressive, but it will be geared more towards expensive workstations. Tony is right, Sony's Emotion engine is very powerful for games, but that's about it. By the way, just because something is advertised as 128-bit doesn't mean it's superior to 64-bit or even 32-bit technology. Remember Atari's Jaguar, the first 64-bit game console? Atari made a marketing message out of the 64-bit engine with the slogan "Do the math," because all of the other consoles out there at the time were either 16-bit or 32-bit. But the quality of Jaguar's 64-bit engine was sub-par, to put it lightly. That combined with lack of software support turned Jaguar into a flop. Tenchusatsu