Play All Console Games on PC with Trioxide?
by Chris Faylor, Jun 16, 2008 7:40am PDTHidden amongst the many internal documents that marketing research firm Intellisponse inadvertently supplied to the public was something called Trioxide, which is said to allow PCs to play "the latest console games" with the original controllers.
How exactly Trioxide would accomplish this feat was not addressed in the now-removed documentation, which was partially preserved at NeoGAF. Of the three major systems on the market, only the Wii's controllers do not use USB plugs.
Two price points were listed, $49 and $299, suggesting that there may be some sort of hardware component to Trioxide, such as a capture card for display input.
Keep in mind, this information comes from a marketing research firm, so it could merely represent a product concept, not one that is currently in production. Read on for more details, including the Intellisponse-supplied product description.
Introducing the ability to play the latest console games (i.e. Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, etc.) on your PC. Many of these games are only available on consoles today and with this new feature would now be available on the PC as well. With this new feature those console games are now playable on your PC!Uses the same game controllers as the original console system (all games use regular console controllers, not your computer keyboard or mouse.)
While Intellisponse has a number of high-profile clients, including Microsoft and Activision, it is not known which company comissioned the Trioxide research. As the system seemingly allows compatibility with multiple consoles, it is not likely to be backed from any of the three major console makers.
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Anyone remember Bleem! It was a company/product that was a PSX emulator for the PC. Back when it came out PSX emulators simply sucked and did not work. Bleem! had some very talented developers and was able to play a number of PSX games at full speed on the PC's of 1999.
They then realized that piracy was doing them in (Bleem! was a 1.5MB executable relying on a CD check, which was easily defeatable) which was a bigger issue since the only money they made was being spent on lawyers keeping Sony at bay.
Their last product was a series of discs for the Sega Dreamcast. Originally they wanted to release discs that could play a hundred games each (theory being they could deliver perfect compatibility on these games) but the testing task proved too daunting so they released three discs with one game per disc - one played Gran Turismo 2, one played Tekken 3, one played Metal Gear Solid.
Ultimately though Sony sued them into the ground. It didn't help that Sony scared GameStop out of carrying the products. Fry's would carry them, they didn't care, as would EB but not GameStop.
TL;DR: Even if this is a real product, it will likely never see the light of day
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Was this post intended for console newbs that still buy into the marketing crap that their console is something more than just a watered down PC?
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