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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (7429)	9/19/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: Ben Wu	Respond to of 16960

Ahh, found the URL for one of the articles that i mentioned. eet.com some pieces: ...Sony and VM Labs seem to agree on some basic ingredients for a next-generation game platform. For one, the developer must control its own silicon and APIs rather than use DirectX and off-the-shelf chips. It must also offer breakthrough graphics that will entice top game designers to write titles for its platform.... ...."Graphics-chip vendors in Silicon Valley today are all doing the same thing; [they're] obsessed with the polygon race," said Ken Kutaragi, executive vice president and co-chief operating officer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo), developer of the popular Playstation console. "Their R&D goals are so near-sighted that they are only paying attention to gradual changes in graphics technologies that can be developed in lockstep with the short-term PC product-development cycle.".... -b

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (7429)	9/19/1998 5:39:00 AM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Chip: grain of salt etc. I think the main piece of information here is that he's telling the same thing to small institutional investors that he's telling us. Thank goodness. There is at least (1) top name OEM already. It is not IBM. Dell has not been ruled out!!!!! I can't imagine IBM going after the home gamer market. Does anyone have a good site for relative market share or systems sold for the various OEMs? Just so I can get my wish-list sorted out. :) Simon