Xbox2 architecture revealed

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Katsuya

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#21 · Apr 28, 2004

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l3illyl3ob said:

yes, but this will rank into over 1000 dollars for production costs, that's more than twice as much as the initial ps2 production cost, they'd take YEARS getting out of the whole, and nobody would want to risk that.

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That's what the cost would be now. In 2006 it should be half that (or less)

 

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#22 · Apr 28, 2004

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Katsuya said:

A game system will never cost more then 35,000yen (about $300usd) (or 250euro)

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Boing, error, PS2 and Xbox had a price of 299€ when released here.

DW : Sony was the first company to succeed with a multi processors system cause of the PlayStation fame, why do you think they kept the "PlayStation" name ? Made marketing dead easy.

 

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#23 · Apr 28, 2004 (Edited)

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Raziel said:

Boing, error, PS2 and Xbox had a price of 299? when released here.

DW : Sony was the first company to succeed with a multi processors system cause of the PlayStation fame, why do you think they kept the "PlayStation" name ? Made marketing dead easy.

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I was just giving a general estimate (it was more in Japan as well)

Also to say Sony was the first company to have succeed with a multi processors system is incorrect.

 

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#24 · Apr 29, 2004

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I don't think it is likely that XBOX2 will have a structure anything like that, but if it is then IMO MS will lose more money/console than they did with XBOX.

 

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#25 · Apr 29, 2004

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Raz - We meant successful in terms of game developer acceptance

Katsuya - Perhaps you misunderstood
Sony was them most successful with multiprocessor consoles. This applies to processors that work independantly with taskings, and the overall acceptance of game designers.
So if you say Turbografix, we would say no because the processors worked as a single unit
So if you say Saturn, we would say no because it's design hindered developers (One of the reasons the Playstation became more successful)
No way you could say Jaguar (The beast of multiprocessors)
So if you say Sega CD / 32X, we would say that the Genesis core still controlled the functions and the co-processor merely added slight features
You could argue with the Neo Geo, but we would simply state that our statement applies to home consoles..The Neo Geo arcade cabinet was successful, but the Neo Geo AES home console was not