Acer’s Vice President, James Wong has said Acer plans to enter the console market. WTF?
Well, according to our German pals at GameStar, James Wong was said to take issue with the fact that the current state of the console market relies solely upon closed and proprietary systems. He sees this as an opportunity for Acer to get in on some gaming fun, and they plan to do this by creating a console utilizing PC technology, which will be, wait for it, a completely open platform. Such a preposterous claim must be taken with a large, Everest sized mountain of salt, but it is interesting nonetheless. For now, we know nothing more, but watch this space for more information. [GameStar]
Phil
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 5:39 PMI’ll stick with the upcoming Pandora, thanks :) http://openpandora.org/
Pac Shady
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM“Someday I’ll be a real console”
Perhaps, Acer, you should work on becoming a real COMPUTER first.
Yer, that Pandora thing looks pretty sweet, wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one of those when they come out (although it does seem a bit strange how expensive it is, for an open source system, compared to say the Nintendo DS). As for Acer, I wouldn’t touch it with a 20′ pole.