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The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS?
An anonymous reader writes "When the Xbox 360 was launched two weeks ago amid much brouhaha over its custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU with 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2GHz each, WindowsForDevices.com wondered aloud, 'What OS runs inside the Xbox 360?' Now, the website thinks it has found the answer to its question. No, it's not Linux or BSD, nor a derivative of Longhorn or Windows CE."
I take it that you didn't even bother to RTFA. It says it has roots in windows 2000 but it is NOT windows 2000, a derivative may be but NOT windows 2000.
All that fuss to say it's a simple derivative of NT, in its second generation of console-ness.
That was certainly a surprise. Oh wait, no it wasn't.
XBox was a 400$+ Million Loss Leader.
Anyone else know how to spell 'monopoly'?
My little site.
Until the PS3, sony maintained complete control of the entire production line (now they're getting processors from IBM and video from nVidia). Neither the PS1 nor the PS2 were ever sold at a loss. The PS3 may or may not be sold at a loss.
Until the most recent price wars, Nintendo never sold a unit at a loss, now each GC is sold at several dollars below cost, which is quickly repaid by the hundreds of thousands of sales in zelda and mario games.
Sega is the only company that was unable to turn a profit on consoles, see where they are now? If the makers of the X Box didn't have billions on hand thanks to OS sales and office suites, they'd have folded even faster.