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

    No, you spelled Chinese wrong.

  2. 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.