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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96029)	3/1/2000 1:23:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571036

Tench, re:Xbox You seem very threatened by it and diss it at every turn. Lets look at the facts a fast athlon and nvidia graphics card are certainly a match for the PII. The PII is also rumored to be a potential intent platform - based on linux. The X-box will kill it once enabled with a MS upgrade - becasue it is basically a PC. You say that no-one will develop games for x-box. This is IDIOTIC. Folks already develop games for PC's. Yes those CD's won't run directly. But thats only because MS will have added a security feature only to run X-box games. The game developer only develps ONCE for PC and the x-box. This is already done with DVDs for example. Not only can you not simply copy DVDs but there are regional limitation where players will only play DVDs from a local zone. In addition i can see MS add a BLEEM type feature where folks can currently run old PI games on X-box. In addition it would seem to me that X-box would replace all the current webtv boxes. And as the X-box allegedly has a hard drive it may well feature a TIVO kind of digital VCR feature set as well. If you were going to shell out $200-300 at christmas for your kid would you buy a PII or an X-box (considering the X-box will likely have an upgrade feature to a PC). Now this doen't mean that PII will not sell. But X-box definately would have a market IMHO and if it is done right it could well be HUGE. regards, Kash