man dont you guys get it? im sure all you programmers do. directx is the key to this X box. a MS standard for device/driver interaction with the prog..in other words you write for directx not a particular sound card, vid card, etc... so if you write this game under a "directx" port then that game ports to any directx capable machine..be it a console or a pc...shall i mention bleem? MS is doing it for them!! no bleem for Xbox on the PC will be neccessary. MS dont care if you buy that game and run it on xbox or windows...they win either way....the relationship between game developers and the console owners(MS, Sony, Nintendo etc) is the BIG difference here. how often have you wished you could play games on your pc or console using the one copy of the game? well here you go..course you have to use Winbloze on your PC...now will Sony or Sega do that? heres another interesting idea....maybe these Xboxes will let you upgrade them, and i mean Upgrade..swap out the cpu board add REAL memory etc....bigger HD's.. another idea....network your xbox into your existing winblozes or other tcpip LAN and play multiplayer games with it...see...MS can come at this from a PC perspective and not lose market share while Sony and the others have almost nothing to gain by marrying PC's and consoles..with them its either one or the other...at least MS can merge the two....im a pc gamer...but the xbox idea looks promising
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man dont you guys get it? im sure all you programmers do. directx is the key to this X box. a MS standard for device/driver interaction with the prog..in other words you write for directx not a particular sound card, vid card, etc... so if you write this game under a "directx" port then that game ports to any directx capable machine..be it a console or a pc...shall i mention bleem? MS is doing it for them!! no bleem for Xbox on the PC will be neccessary. MS dont care if you buy that game and run it on xbox or windows...they win either way....the relationship between game developers and the console owners(MS, Sony, Nintendo etc) is the BIG difference here. how often have you wished you could play games on your pc or console using the one copy of the game? well here you go..course you have to use Winbloze on your PC...now will Sony or Sega do that? heres another interesting idea....maybe these Xboxes will let you upgrade them, and i mean Upgrade..swap out the cpu board add REAL memory etc....bigger HD's.. another idea....network your xbox into your existing winblozes or other tcpip LAN and play multiplayer games with it...see...MS can come at this from a PC perspective and not lose market share while Sony and the others have almost nothing to gain by marrying PC's and consoles..with them its either one or the other...at least MS can merge the two....im a pc gamer...but the xbox idea looks promising