[geeks] Xbox2 block diagram leaked

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:02:53PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 27 Apr 2004 @ 11:21 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
> > http://bbs.gzeasy.com/index.php?showtopic=149175 has a block diagram of
> > the Xbox2.  The thing has three 3.5GHz PPC970 cores, 84+ GFLOPS each.
> > That's gotta put it somewhere in the performance range of a Power4 ... 
> > for a *game console*?
> 
> They are losing money on the current XBox, and analysts say it is
> partly Sony, and partly the expense of the XBox design.
> 
> I don't see how a big increase in the cost of the XBox2 over the XBox is
> going to solve that problem.

fiik.  ask Bill Gates.


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