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Next Gen Console Winner Is IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seekrit-console dept.

Via Joystiq, an article on the Seattle Times points out what many of us have already known: IBM is the real winner of the console war. The company is providing chips for all three consoles, and is busily crafting money hats for everyone involved. From the article: "Using the engineering consulting work it did for Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony as a model, IBM has formed a new 'technology-collaboration solutions' unit that's expected to post $4 billion in revenue this year. Internal projections call for that division to hit $10 billion by 2010 and $20 billion by 2015. Those targets may sound high for a $91 billion company that is barely able to grow overall revenue. But hardware-division chief William Zeitler hopes to achieve them by replicating IBM's video-game collaborations in such industries as telecom, defense and medicine."

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  1. Cute-A love connection? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "In the meantime, my PS2, GameCube, and PC will "hold" me in terms of gaming."

    Would you like a quiet moment alone?

  2. Re:To be literal by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the pedant's meeting wasn't until tommorow?

    --
    Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
  3. Re:To be literal by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the pedant's meeting wasn't until tommorow?

    You mean "pedants' meeting."

  4. Deep Blue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    IBM is sitting on 3 million console cases for Deep Blue ... they are about a year away from a $179 retail price point on the Chess-playing, number crunching game machine. (Floating point not necessary)