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Gates: Xbox 360 ?A General Purpose Computer?

In what may prove to be a controversial statement, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has described the Xbox 360 as ?a general purpose computer?, echoing similarly controversial comments from PlayStation boss Ken Kutaragi when describing the PlayStation 3.

Speaking to the San Jose Mercury News earlier this week, Gates stated that, ?We wouldn't have done it if it was just a gaming device. We wouldn't have gotten into the category at all. It was about strategically being in the living room. This is not some big secret. Sony says the same things."

Although Gates? description of the Xbox has been widely understood by the industry for some time, the company has previously shied away from describing the console?s ambitions in such explicit terms.

Elsewhere in the interview, Gates also suggests that Microsoft and Sony have now switched positions in terms of market dominance in the U.S., suggesting that Sony has ?burned a year? in the design and manufacture of the Cell processor. As such he claims that the Xbox 360 will always be technically superior in terms of graphics because of its extra year in the hands of developers.

In direct contrast to comments widely reported earlier in the week, in which Gates suggested in a Japanese interview that Nintendo was the company?s ?toughest competition?, he this time claimed that Sony was Microsoft?s direct competitor in the video games industry. He suggested, as he has done in the past, that the Wii?s novelty would weaSource:ly quickly.

Source: Gamasutra

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Flip-flopper! :p

Although I do agree with Gates saying that the PS3 will be the 360's main opponent. The Wii is the one everybody is going to buy on the side. It's not in direct competition with the other two units. Nintendo really found their niche.

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Well surely if its a general purpose computer, then it should have a web browser?

From what I've read, MS's reason for not having a browser on the 360, was cos th 360 is a games console, and not a computer. But yet gates is saying it is? lol

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i agree with the welsh, it's high time for full net connectivity on the 360. then again, this type of assertion from Gates really veers too close for comfort to what my friend has said about the 360, that's she's a "shuttle PC dressed up a bit as a marketing trick". i hate thinking of the old gal like that, but it may be true.

Convergence Day is ever nearer.

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