IBM To Design Technology For XBox 2 CPU

An anonymous reader writes "According to Biz Ink, 'Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox products and services to be announced at a later date..' IBM are already working on the PlayStation 3 CPU alongside Toshiba, and have a relationship with Nintendo after making the GameCube CPU, though there's been no official announcement on GameCube 2's hardware. Is the next-gen hardware war heating up?"

Comments

Re:Let the Anti-MS rants begin.

[Milktoast]

Exactly. Every Xbox related thread turns into a blind Microsoft ranting thread. I find it funny that the /. community just turns a blind eye towards the anticompetitive practices of sony and kneejerks towards MS's gaming division instead.

Too bad this gaming site can't stay focused on games.

When

[Kethinov]

When will I be able to build my own XBox? Build my own Playstation? Build my own Nintendo?

Oh, right, we're talking about consoles again, aren't we. There's a reason I don't buy them. I'm not a moron. I know how to pick my hardware and build a 1337 gaming rig without having some company pick it for me. Here's a thought: continue making classic consoles for the computer (hardware) illiterate gamers and let the rest of us just run the damn games on our PCs. Take your big companies and give the poor open source non profit emulator developers some official support. Then I can map my own controls to whatever controller I want. Then I can save my game whenever I want; despite circumstance. Give us more platform freedom and I'll buy your games!

Re: When

[Kethinov]

Uh, did I say change the system for everybody? No. When are you going to stop being illiterate? Give us choice. Leave simplicity to the simpletons and give those of us who care a choice.