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Motorola, Nintendo, & Sony Towards Wireless Gaming

Posted by Hemos on from the hey-now-get-your-thumbs-on dept.

WeekendKruzr writes "CommsDesign is running an article about how Motorola has partnered with Sony and Nintendo to work on bringing 2.4Ghz wireless LAN tech to the console gaming community. They're calling it an "isochronous network" and it is "intended for streaming, near-real-time traffic..." with production scheduled for later this year."

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  1. In other news, MS announces extensions by capt.Hij · · Score: 5, Funny
    Motorola and Nintendo have demonstrated the isochronous gaming LAN privately at gaming conferences over the last quarter. The RF subsystems will be ready for volume production in the second half of this year, Burgess said.

    In other news, Microsoft has announced extensions tothe protocal for use in their XBox. The new extensions are not compatible but according to MS sources offer better value to the consumer.

  2. Don't play nice together..... by jsimon12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This would be great till someone tries to use the 2.4 ghz cordless phone, or fires up a WiFi laptop, or for that matter cooks some popcorn in the microwave. Not to mention the fact that you probably can't play it around grandpa because of his pacemaker ;)

  3. War driving by guacamolefoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now instead of getting into sensitive corporate data, I'll be able to erase someone's saved season of Madden 200X! w00t!

    --
    Lots of petrified grits
  4. Been there by loosenut · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been playing a wireless game for years: it's called Frisbee.

    /me ducks incoming barrage of spinning NICs