Consoles And Their Tech
by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 30, 2001 7:29am PSTI see on /. that EDN Access has an article up about the tech powering the three consoles, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. Pretty informative if you care about knowing this sort of thing.
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12I see on /. that EDN Access has an article up about the tech powering the three consoles, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. Pretty informative if you care about knowing this sort of thing.
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PS2-targeted games come on both copy-protected CDs and DVDs, and the console also plays DVD-Video discs if you buy the $19.99 remote-control accessory.
Uh, Wrong. PS2 plays DVD's right outta the box!
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At least one thing is clear: The shoot-'em-up game genre, popular in the past, is losing its appeal as television viewers behold the horror of real-life war on the evening news. What game genres will replace it is less clear.
It is? That's news to me. Where did they get that from?
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And also contained the security hole that allowed for Dreamcast piracy. I've always wondered if, knowing that they intend to get in the console market, Microsoft left that security hole in intentionally to help kill a competitor.
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