| From: | Jean-Pierre |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2000 at 23:27:33 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
SH4 & 5 in consoles?
Are we missing out on the shifts in the market here? Why not make a Console
reference design - all the major games houses are starting to shift their
activity away from PC gaming onto consoles - more stable environment
because of less different configurations, less different hardware to support
etc.
Admittedly its a hard market to compete in, but if there's room for
something
like Indrema (www.indrema.com), a Linux games console, well....lets at least
give an indication that Ami DE is the ideal environment for gaming.
Sega is still suffering - games are being cancelled for the console because
ppl
feel the installed base is too small - Ami software being able to run on it
seems like an ideal way for Sega to sell more hardware plus its seems like
a doddle to realise after Tao has already demoed Elate on Dreamcast...
> But this means nothing in the future we(Amiga Inc.) are aming for, as a
simple
> senario you might see something like this:
>
> StrongARM in PDA�s
> Mips in settopboxes
> X86 & PPC in Consumer machines
> SMP x86, Sparc, Alpha, PPC in workstations and servers.
>
> In this senario the user will choose the best solution for his/her needs
based on the
> application instead of looking at OS availability.
>
> Again this is peronal observations and is in no way official Amiga Inc.
policy.
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