Alby_da_Wolf on 17 February 2010
| Demotruk said: You have to look at motivation. The motivation to enter the phone hardware market is entirely defensive, I don't see them moving further into hardware unless they have to. |
But actually Google doesn't produce HW, it released an OS and SW platform for smartphones, it could do the same with an OS and SW platform for gaming, recycling a lot of parts from Android, BTW... Just like with Android they wouldn't have to personally delve too much into HW, actually they'd provide tools and services to HW manufacturers. And the Holy Grail of unifying PC and consoles could really open unknown opportunities.
It would be a project conceptually similar to 3DO, with the difference that nowadays HW is dirt cheap, making things easier on the pricing front, and Google has many more resources to succeed where 3DO failed.
