Re: Sega vs Microsoft

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From: j... jim
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:00

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In article <8amh1r$128i$1...@its1.ocs.lsu.edu>, k...@oldbit.csc.lsu.edu (Isaac Kuo)
wrote:

> I have a hunch that Microsoft started the X-Box project
> because Sony didn't go in for Win-CE on PS2.  If Sony
> had agreed to Win-CE on PS2 and Win32-based PS2 development
> packages, Microsoft wouldn't have needed to worry about
> Sony's intentions of making the PS2 a jack-of-all-trades
> PC replacement.

How much money could Microsoft really have made on licensing
WinCE?  I can't imagine them seeing much of a market in it.
The prospect of collecting fat royalties on each title sold
with a completely new platform seems far more lucrative from
a business sense.

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