Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering
by ralphstodomingo on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:53AM
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The mobile platform is inherently different from desktop - what made the desktop OS flourish constrained their thinking when they went with Windows Mobile.
Gaming, on the other hand... it's not like they weren't dealing with games on the desktop before Xbox. I remember reading somewhere that the Xbox is just a desktop PC in a different case, if you take a look at the components.
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Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering
by tinkthank on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:30AM
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That's correct - the Xbox was about 95% COTS PC components. It had a Pentium 3, a Geforce 3 deriviative, 64MB DDR RAM, and a 8GB IDE HDD. Compare that to the PowerPC or MIPS processors and custom GPUs the competition was using at the time.