In the purple corner: a short, squat plumber with suspenders and a mustache. In the black corner: the world's richest man, a geek with glasses. It's Mario versus Bill Gates in a battle for a $20 billion industry. The next seven days mark the most anticipated and hyped week in the 29-year history of the video game business: the Thursday launch of the Xbox, a sleek black console from software giant Microsoft Corp. and next Sunday's debut of GameCube, a colorful next-generation platform for Mario and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s other famed characters.
Analysts expect the twin launches, combined with sales of the year-old PlayStation 2 from Sony Corp. to ignite a five-year growth cycle in the video game industry, which already outranks Hollywood movies as a magnet for entertainment dollars. The anticipation for the product launches, which come just ahead of the year-end shopping season, has turned the video game industry into "Donkey Kong," the big gorilla to beat.
News source: Reuters
Analysts expect the twin launches, combined with sales of the year-old PlayStation 2 from Sony Corp. to ignite a five-year growth cycle in the video game industry, which already outranks Hollywood movies as a magnet for entertainment dollars. The anticipation for the product launches, which come just ahead of the year-end shopping season, has turned the video game industry into "Donkey Kong," the big gorilla to beat.
News source: Reuters
Tehama-E is also still positioned as the top of Intel's mainstream processors, which use Rambus memory, but Brookdale-E, Brookdale-G and Brookdale-GL for the value market will all launch at the same time.
At their launch on April 1st - no jokes please - the Tehama-E chipset will only cost $39, the 850 will drop to $39,Brookdale-G will cost $46, Brookdale-E $45, and Brookdale GL will cost around $34. The Intel 845 will cost the same as Tehama-E, we understand.
Further, this all means that the 1.80GHz Pentium 4, the existence of which we first reported in August, will also move from Q3 into Q2, a sign of acceleration on the P4 platform. This baby is a 478 pin "Celeron", although its unclear whether Intella will carry on calling it that.
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