Acer senior VP James T. Wong said that his company has a game machine in mind that would be built upon "open standards" at a press event last week.
"If you look at most of the other game machines that are out there right now--Nintendo's, the Xbox [360]--they are 'closed' and proprietary systems," Wong said.
Unlike the current roster of consoles, an "open" platform would not require corporate oversight or management, allowing anybody to run just about anything on the hardware.
The company, which recently acquired fellow PC manufacturer Gateway, hopes to incorporate open standards into all its products envisioned for future development, including the possibility of a console or console-like game system.
As synapse said, you oversimplify. You have no idea what the performance gains in a purpose built gaming OS over a gener...
Let's just say there's nothing technically holding back an open platform media center/console. That a purpose designed g...
Yes, I have and the OS on the 360 is a derivative, but it's custom designed for gaming. XP embedded and CE are not.