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Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox

Posted by Soulskill on from the wide-open-market dept.

siliconbits writes "Chinese manufacturer Lenovo will build a video gaming console for the Chinese market and has already spun off a company called Eedoo Technology, including a team of 40 engineers, with the task of developing the platform. It will be called the Ebox, and will be specifically designed to recognize shapes and movement without the need for a dedicated game controller, not unlike Microsoft's Kinect."

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  1. Hmmm... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So its designed to work similar to a Microsoft product...

    It's name has a strange resemblance to a Microsoft product...

    How does that expression about Ducks go again?

    Anyways, Kinect is patented, so if the technology is similar enough, I smell a potential lawsuit.

    1. Re:Hmmm... by LoRdTAW · · Score: 2, Funny

      It probably runs Xbox software backups too.

  2. Re:I for one Welcome by TheKidWho · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, you spelled Chinese wrong.

  3. not unlike Microsoft's Kinect by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 2, Funny

    not unlike Microsoft's Kinect
    I wonder just how much "not unlike Microsoft's Kinect?"

  4. I smell a turd... by snowraver1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    They plan on developing it in *Three* months... With 40 engineers.
    It's going to cost more than a Nintento Wii, but less than an XBOX360
    It costs a Chinese person that makes an average wage 3 months of pay.

    I predict colossal failure.

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    1. Re:I smell a turd... by realmolo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It probably is too pricey for the Chinese market.

      But they could *absolutely* develop it in 3 months. You could build a better-than-360 console that quickly using off-the-shelf stuff. If you have it run Linux on x86, then developers can CRANK out the games. And if you don't go nuts with the copy protection and licensing restrictions (and historically China doesn't care about those things), you'll have what amounts to a modern version of the Amiga- i.e., a computer built for games.

      If that's what it's going to be, that would be pretty awesome.

    2. Re:I smell a turd... by Ironhandx · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If it was actually intended for the chinese market and not to "accidentally" be sold to other countries through international web sites and under-the-table dealers I might agree with you.

    3. Re:I smell a turd... by snowraver1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I was thinking specifically about the motion controls. Microsoft has alot of money and resources to throw around to get motion control to work. They have been working on that for how long now... two years?? It still looks crappy. I highly doubt that Lenovo has the talent that microsoft does to make such a device, and if Microsoft's version looks terrible, I can't imagine what this Ebox's would look like.

      As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?

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    4. Re:I smell a turd... by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 3, Funny

      As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?

      Why the massive Linux game development community for one! I'm surprised no one has thought of this yet! What kid wouldn't want to play Tuxracer and... well just Tuxracer, on Christmas morning?

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    5. Re:I smell a turd... by JohnBailey · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You are wrong. You know why the real estate prices soar in Hong Kong, Macau and Canada? Mainland Chinese keep buying them with cash. Like everything else, this thing is not marketed to those who cannot afford it.

      Waste of time.. The story mentioned China, so full xenophobia mode is engaged. Any depiction of a Chinese national as anything other than a poverty stricken sweatshop worker will be aggressively and hysterically denied. I imagine Japan had the same treatment at one pint.

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  5. Re:The "X" in Xbox stood for something. by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    To answer my own question: "Easy". Their just asking to be sued by Staples!

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  6. Re:The "X" in Xbox stood for something. by the+phantom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps it is a reference to Eedoo Technology, the Lenovo subsidiary that is creating this device?

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