Discover The DISCover Console

Posted by simoniker on Saturday July 26, 2003 @03:31PM from the more-crazed-pc-based-hardware dept.

Thanks to GameShark.com for their interview with Curtis Kaiser of DISC regarding their forthcoming DISCover "PC game console". Kaiser describes the DISCover as "a game console that plays unmodified PC games. As with a PlayStation or Xbox, you simply drop the disc into the console and play. The difference is the video game consoles can only play games made for their proprietary formats, while the DISCover can play the thousands of available PC titles." Entry-level models will be priced from $299, and the company is trying to tout ease of use as the biggest advantage of buying the DISCover over a normal PC - "...patching scripts will be received through the DISCover network. Patches will automatically be applied to any installed program or they will be applied as part of the installation process."

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Re:Interesting... by Kaeru+the+Frog · 2003-07-26 20:45 · Score: 3, Funny

what's to stop me from buying one, ripping it apart and shoving the components into a real computer?

Perhaps they will forgo the standard plastic casing in favor of a giant gob of epoxy?
Re:X-BOX KILLER by rkz · 2003-07-27 01:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Because Microsoft actually make money selling Windows XP embeded licences, as opposed to losing money on evary Xbox sale!

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