Toshiba made this: http://www.toshiba.com/tacp/dvd/nuon.html I seen it in today''s Best Buy advertisement, but never heard of it before. Doesn''t look like its any more powerful than a PSX or maybe even a CDI/3DO....Whats everyone heard about this?? qurob@hotmail.com

they advertise it like it''s more focussed on being a DVD player.

JoeMont001@programmer.net www.polarisoft.n3.net

Ahh, the Nuon a.k.a. VMLabs Project-X.

I don''t think it will make much of a dent in the console market, but it actually does have an interesting CPU chip. Its one chip with 4 independent CPU units on it (with the architecture able to handle 16 CPU units). There is no special graphics chip, you just dedicate one of the CPU units to blitting (or whatever - if you want you can dynamically allocate, but for complexity reasons most apps probably dedicate various CPUs to various tasks).

It will have lots of interesting Jeff Minter apps (of LamaSoft and Jaguar fame), but basically compared with the current next gen consoles its pretty weak. If I were marketting it, I would aim it at DVD watchers who might play a game (i.e., solitaire, video poker or something), because gamers who also want to watch DVDs will (and do) have better options available.

If it had 4x as much RAM, the CPU increased to 8 or 16 way multiprocessing and was clocked faster it might have a chance as a console...

Ever heard of the Dolphin system?

its called the gamecube now not dolphin