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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave who wrote (56932)	3/29/2001 10:50:27 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Maybe they don't intend to use TCP/IP. No sense using an open protocol when a proprietary one will suffice. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Dave who wrote (56932)	3/29/2001 11:56:03 PM
From: ericneu	Respond to of 74651

Anyway, to more directly answer your question, PlayStation 2 and DreamCast support Ethernet cards, and those consoles are shipping NOW, so I guess they're a little bit ahead of XBox there. --- PS2 does not currently offer an ethernet adapter. Dreamcast does offer an ethernet adapter as an option but less than half a dozen games support it so it's fairly useless. Historically console addons are badly supported by game developers - they don't want to write a game that requires an expensive addon as it drastically limits their market. Traditionally addons sell to less than 15% of the installed base. Xbox will be the first console in history to ship with broadand support (via 10/100 Ethernet) standard. That's the difference. - Eric