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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (97631)	3/9/2000 1:29:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

X-box: Are they really saying late 2001? That is a very, very long time from now. The trouble with x-box, if it's just a prepackaged PC, and that's what it's sounding like, then it will have to compete with the ongoing evolution in, uh, regular PCs. Which will continue to get cheaper, and faster, and are more flexible, though of course they're a pain to upgrade too. Cheers, Dan.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (97631)	3/9/2000 2:10:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Respond to of 1570940

Joe, Yes. The Microsoft endorsement should award less risk to AMD and help achieve a more than laughable PE. Also, for the Xbox to be successful against PSII, I think MS needs to develop extensions to DirectX that offer game developers an API that has a higher level of abstraction in terms of animation and physical modeling, such as with Sony's Emotion Engine and the new ATI Charisma Engine. Something along these lines could help distinguish the Xbox from a PC and give MS something to liscense to make money of the darn thing. Pravin