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Technology Stocks : 3DO: Hot Games for Hot Machines (THDO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Patrick O'Connor who wrote (3729)	1/9/2001 4:51:33 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 4081

They would be circling anyway, though. Sony cannot have a monopoly.

To: David Patrick O'Connor who wrote (3729)	1/9/2001 8:59:47 PM
From: Bruce Prescott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4081

RE: "Gates should have asked Trip for some solid advice on the video game console business before venturing into uncharted waters. Trip could have filled him in with first hand experience." I couldn't agree with you more. Though I think Gates is familiar with what Trip was trying to do when he started 3DO. It still makes sense -- it's just going to take somebody with really deep pockets to pull it off. I not sure Microsoft can pull it off. Sony is way ahead of them. The Holy Grail for everybody is a set top box and operating system that can handle all the forms of broadband interactive multimedia and communications entering and exiting home. That is still in the future -- but the distance is not as far as it was when Trip was pushing his vision for 3DO as a hardware company. Everything Sony is doing with its Vaio line of computers as well as with the PSX and PSX 2 looks like it is converging toward the future Holy Grail. From your article, it looks like there are already hints that Microsoft will return to focusing exclusively on software.