Next generation of console hardware. Interesting!

http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0806/018.html

http://ne.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/20...niv/int5_1.html

IBM, Sony and Toshiba teams up....

All the articles on one place.

More interesting Stuff!!!!!!

Nice stuff Bossie..

We will see what the PS3 will be like in 4years or so..
Right now I got to worry about PS2 eating my money..

Its interseting that and I quote

But these are baby steps. Sony\'s digital convergence masterstroke will be the PlayStation 3, a few years out. PS3 will be more network than box. The brains behind PS3 will be an extremely fast "supercomputer on a chip," now in joint development by Sony, IBM and Toshiba at a well-guarded lab in Austin, Texas. The chip will function as both a network server and a game processor and reside either at a central location or in hardware in individual homes[/color]. Games will no longer come in packages but will be played directly with other gamers over speedy fiber-optic links.

The machine itself will become the server. That will eliminate the huge amounts of money it takes to make larger online games.


also interesting is

Sony will stop charging licensing fees to game developers and will make money only from sales of its own games and hardware, all fitted with the chips necessary to play games pulled down from the web. [/color]"Who wants to pay $1,000 to $2,000 for a Pentium PC when a $100 tv can do the same thing?" the Sony exec says.

very interesting indeed. Can they be profittable this way ??

Kutaragi doesn\'t see much upside in licensing fees. "Distribution should be free,"he says, alluding to the fact that Microsoft aims to levy monthly fees for msn service. Kutaragi invites all comers, even Microsoft, to join his consortium and wants to make his chip available even to such rivals as Nintendo. [/color]

well that would be cool and its interesting to see who the real visionary is




Excellent read

Yes it is indeed. I\'ve read through the whole article (posted at TeamXbox including all the replyes)... very interesting.

If Kutaragi can really go through with that, then we\'re in for something really big. PC\'s survival will be at stake (heck, if PS2 could have turned out to be "the" PC-Killer, imagine what this would do to the market). The only thing that I have doubts about is the broadband. It might soon ready in the US, but there are still a lot of places that don\'t even have proper broadband yet. The question is, will the infrastructure be ready in time and does Sony have the money and stuff to make this reality?