Bill Gates Hints At Xbox 360 Features 41
mgbaron writes "Read the first part of Engadget's interview of Bill Gates where topics discussed range from the Xbox 360 to Media Center PCs to Windows Mobile and Microsoft's future involvement in portable devices. On an interesting note, Gates downplays the rumors that the Xbox 360 might itself be a media hub. He instead hints that it might share some of the same features. The second part of the interview will run tomorrow and cover such topics as Blu-Ray and the Tablet PC."
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I also suspect someone's looking at the console market in terms of t
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xbox 180 (Score:3, Interesting)
It's called an unveiling (Score:1)
The features will become known on May 12, hence the unveiling. They are going to "unveil" (That is to say, remove the perverbial "veil") the features in good time my man.
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The "already known" benefits you tout are themselves extremely speculative.
(Not that I doubt that the cell processors are potentially quite powerful, but Sony has a well-established history of delivering bare minimum hardware, particularly in comparison to their competition.)
Media Excuse more likely (Score:1)
And my MythDVD box I'm building is far far more interesting I believe. With it I have all my videos up to view from any PC that can run the frontend.
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Just thinking ahead, I hope my remote can fin
simple reason why it wont be a media hub (Score:3, Interesting)
Most importantly though , they wouldnt want to take away sales from media center PCs , It would cause a major argument with the PC-companys who make Media center PCs if it did
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To forestall the possible argument that converting PC gamers reduces the sales of Windows, just remember that most people need computers anyway. There's more to computers than just games. I still need one for work and whatnot, though I do not play games on it anymore.
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Its not the converting of games or vice versa its the target audiance
This takes out a major upgrade factor from the pc for those gamers.
Why upgrade your system if all you need is this console that costs 150.
This bites in
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Everyone else is saying "Entertainment Hub" (Score:1)
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Correction, he never called it an entertainment hub - the "news" sources doing the quoting put those words in his mouth. What he said is this:
"If you're used to that menu, when you use this Xenon you'll see a menu a lot like that that lets you get photos, TV, music and all those different things."
People in the press take that to mean it's a hub. But
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Second Part of Interview (Score:4, Informative)