Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 11, 2003 12:44 AM
that pennyarcade thing showed just what they're up to.. out of their minds, or just camping for investors.
bad for the investors though..
the thing is, the games companies won't get really enthuastic about a project to sell yet another EXTRA pc to pc owners, and to tweak their games for that and the broadband media(hey, ever wondered if it would be cool to download 5gigs the console games are starting to take over the network just when you wanted to play? with 'broadband' of 25kbyte/s...).
they're trying to sell a closed pc where a software package might be all that's needed. heck, there would be market for decent cheap subscripting of games over the network. but why on earth they want to get in the ring with xbox, gamecube and ps2 and use microsofts system for that too? like, wtf? yascd.
and since it's a 'full pc', limiting the programs to run to their approved won't mean good sales(you wouldn't be able to substitute your pc with it), and if they do allow anything to be ran without too much thought the whole 'secure' system is fucked..
all it screams is HYPE HYPE HYPE BUZZWORDS HYPE HYPE MONEY TO BE MADE REALLY HYPE HYPE.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 11, 2003 12:44 AMbad for the investors though..
the thing is, the games companies won't get really enthuastic about a project to sell yet another EXTRA pc to pc owners, and to tweak their games for that and the broadband media(hey, ever wondered if it would be cool to download 5gigs the console games are starting to take over the network just when you wanted to play? with 'broadband' of 25kbyte/s...).
they're trying to sell a closed pc where a software package might be all that's needed. heck, there would be market for decent cheap subscripting of games over the network. but why on earth they want to get in the ring with xbox, gamecube and ps2 and use microsofts system for that too? like, wtf? yascd.
and since it's a 'full pc', limiting the programs to run to their approved won't mean good sales(you wouldn't be able to substitute your pc with it), and if they do allow anything to be ran without too much thought the whole 'secure' system is fucked..
all it screams is HYPE HYPE HYPE BUZZWORDS HYPE HYPE MONEY TO BE MADE REALLY HYPE HYPE.
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