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Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox
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."
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.
No, you spelled Chinese wrong.
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.
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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Perhaps it is a reference to Eedoo Technology, the Lenovo subsidiary that is creating this device?
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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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