Microsoft is dumping Intel and switching processors in its next-generation Xbox...

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: Blayze

Originally posted by: Maverick
how can they do this so late in the game? Isn't 2005 the year for the new systems to come out? Sony will probably beat them yet again.

2005/2006 from what Ive read.

I really hope the XBox 2 or whatever its called will be backwards compatible with the XBox games that are out now.

Kinda going to be hard if they are changing processor arch so drasitcally

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews

Originally posted by: lameaway
If it resembles the first-generation machine, it will just be an assemblage of commodity PC parts strapped into a godawful-looking plastic box....

Keep telling yourself that, bigot.

You'd think that on a tech message board, using standard components and relatively open interfaces would be encouraged, not frowned upon.

This is a game console here. The "open" prodcuts are not specialized for that. Simple enough.