[geeks] Xbox2 block diagram leaked

[Andrew Weiss]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 8:02 PM, 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.
>
Because supposedly people cannot use the new XBox2 as a cheap Linux PC.

Andrew