| From: | Robert Konrad |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 03:22:04 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Sega |
> The X-Box is so far away that it isn't worth comparing it to
>systems that are out now. Maybe the Dolphin, but both Sega and
>Sony have said that they will be at least one more generation
>ahead when the X-Box launches. The other thing that
>remains to be seen is if M$ can pull it off. All the specs I've
>read about the X-Box so far make me think they don't understand the
>console market at all.
At the moment it looks like GameCube(Dolphin) will be faster than
XBox, cause of it's memory/bus system (Amiga should have a look at
this for their hardware references). And XBox is a 32bit system ;)
but they actually manage that console users start to talk about MHz,
like Windows users do it :(
MSX was a looser and I think XBox will be one, too. Most probably a
cool graphic chip but not the right hardware to get it to it's
limits. And I don't know anybody who is interested in a PC - console
mix.
>> Their problem is, unlike Nintendo, they don't have anything to fall
>> back on except making games. 3DO managed the transition, but
>> almost didn't and lost most of their staff several times during the
>> process.
>>
>
> What else does Nintendo have to fall back on if they dropped out
>of the hardware market?
I don't know, but Sega still got it's arcade hardware.
BTW, I just had a look at Espial's Escape browser, which can be
downloaded at devicetop.com. Very cool, knows allmost all HTML tags,
a lot of CSS and can even do some DHTML, allthough Netscape's layer
tag is not the right way to do this...even Netscape tries to get away
from this.
But I'm very impressed, Netscape6 and IE5 can't do much more
(somtimes less) and it supports more stuff than Opera does.
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