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Game_boy on 03 January 2008
ion-storm said:
Game_boy said:
Lingyis said:
now that's an interesting idea. goes the completely opposite direction as nintendo's business plans.

apple tried it, failed completely. IBM did, tremendous success.

now they get the specifications right is another issue. but i would love to own an xbox whose manufacture is not microsoft (reliability issue). i don't know what kind of innovations can come with it, but i do know prices will come down in a hurry.

So successful it cut them out of the business entirely and now they make neither IBM PC CPUs or OSs.


AIX?

Anyway didn't sega do this with the saturn? Don't think it did anything for them. Microsoft might have a better time of it. I think it makes sense. Make xbox 360 a standard instead of just a console. Microsoft being a software company and not a hardware one if anyone could make it work they could.


 AIX does not run on the IBM PC platform (which is IA32 not POWER).



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Willem on 03 January 2008

Hm, if some manufacturer takes such license, what would the extra license-fees cost ?
And how many extra costs will it take to make the product xbox compatible ( CPU's + memory + other electronics ) ?

I'm pretty sure the that there will be no benefits at all for the producer, if people want to play xbox games, let them buy the console.
And if they only want to get a HD/DVD-player / recorder I don't think they're willing to pay a few 100 bucks extra for the other required electronics just to play games. They would buy a cheaper product with the same (if not more/better) features and quality from the competition.

They might loosen the restrictions for 3rd party accessory producers though.



ion-storm on 03 January 2008
Game_boy said:
ion-storm said:
Game_boy said:
Lingyis said:
now that's an interesting idea. goes the completely opposite direction as nintendo's business plans.

apple tried it, failed completely. IBM did, tremendous success.

now they get the specifications right is another issue. but i would love to own an xbox whose manufacture is not microsoft (reliability issue). i don't know what kind of innovations can come with it, but i do know prices will come down in a hurry.

So successful it cut them out of the business entirely and now they make neither IBM PC CPUs or OSs.


AIX?

Anyway didn't sega do this with the saturn? Don't think it did anything for them. Microsoft might have a better time of it. I think it makes sense. Make xbox 360 a standard instead of just a console. Microsoft being a software company and not a hardware one if anyone could make it work they could.


AIX does not run on the IBM PC platform (which is IA32 not POWER).


Didn't realise we were talking specifically about a specific architecture. Still, I only threw it in there to be annoying :P POWER is such an awesome name don't you think?



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