MS to possibly license Xbox 360 clones...

Yeah but both companies were associates in the R&D of the saturn. Letting other produce the machine is a heavy weight out of SEGAs head.

 

No.

 

Or Nintendo, for that matter, licensing out both Famicom (Famicom Twin, Famicom Titler, the Famicom/TV combo) and Super Famicom (SFC/TV combo) technology to Sharp.

 

and gamecube to panasonic (Q)

 

I think you people are mixing up the word Clone and Variation. If it is un-official, it is a clone. If it is official, it is a variation. For example, the Hi-Saturn is a Saturn variation, but the Poly Station is a Famicom clone. Usually when you say clone, a cheaply built system with questionable legality comes to mind, not something officially licensed by Microsoft, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, whoever.

 

I dont think so: variation usually has some hardware diferences, like the HIsaturn with VCD and a different BIOS.

A clone is a copy, legal or illegal of the hardware. Apple is always talking about the mac clones, and those were made with apple`s oficial support

 

Uhhh no...

Guess what, they did make a change in the different forms of the Saturn. The Hi-Saturn, V-Saturn, and Samsung Saturn all had different cases, and a different boot sequence if I remember correctly. There you go, something different, which means it is a variation of the original Saturn. Usually when a console is made by another company, with the official approval of the company in question, they put their own little things into it. Different design, boot sequence , etc. So, it is a variation of the original. So, if Microsoft let Sega, or anyone else, make their own version of the XBOX, there is no doubt in my mind that the company would put thier own touches into the console, making it a variation.

I don't really give a shit what Apple said. I'm talking video games, not computers. Two different things. In the video game world, a clone is usually a cheap, unofficial copy of another, usually older, system.

I guess the word clone is so much easier to use. Not as many letters right?

 

Alien Workshop is right on this one. Saturns, Famicoms and Game Cubes by Hitachi, Victor, Sharp or Panasonic are NOT clones. The are official products. Same goes for Panasonic, Goldstar and Samsung (?) 3DO systems.

Yakumo

 

Apple has a console too

And the 3DO, THATs a different thing. It was supposed to be a mix between the PC creed and the videogame creed: a game format compatible between different consoles.

Just like the PC and windows: anything that runs on HP runs on DELL too

 

Please inform me of this Apple console, as I have never heard of it.

I don't think you know much about the 3DO. It was not supposed to be a "PC Creed", Trip licensed the 3DO technology to other companies so 3DO could yield more profit. Every console sold was money in 3DO's "pockets" since they weren't burdened by the costs of building the hardware themselves.

 

The Pippin/Atmark, which was produced together with Bandai but folded rather quickly. Also, there's rumours of a supposedly considered follow-up called "Iplay".

 

No prob, the Pippin/Atmark (as antipasta already said) lasted less than any other console i kno. It wasnt so bad in the hardware aspect, the problem was that they targeted it at the educative market, thus making it pretty hard to sell at that price (almost 600$ i think)

Too bad they didnt release any game worth of playin (let alone buyin) it.

The console



Now this is the controller. I repeat, they were a bunch of dumbarses with the game catalog, cuz im sure this controller would rock with FPS games

Check out that trackball in the middle


About the 3DO, i think i was misundertood. First, 3DO never went to do their own console, they were looking for companies to take the job. The first was panasonic, but they let clear that any other company willing to pay the fee could get a 3DO license.

Now, when 3DO steps out from the console deal, they sell all the 3DO rigts (and the M" tech) to panasonic, who`s now the only company with the right to produce the 3DO format.

 

Oh, I always gave Bandai credit for that -_- But come on, the Pippin! You call that a true entry into the videogame market? The Jag did better than Pippin!

1. I already knew about the Pippin, I just always gave Bandai full credit for it.

2. I have no Idea what you are trying to say about 3DO. What I previously said about 3DO in my post is absolutely correct. And to push it even further, after 3DO was finished designing the console, several companies bought rights to make them. Panasonic was just the first to release a 3DO system. Oh, and 3DO didn't "sell all the 3DO rights" to Panasonic, they just sold them the M2 Tech. and dropped out of the hardware business. They continued to make software for the longest time after that, but they died off recently.

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Please get rid of your giant pictures, as I already knew/know what a Pippin is and looks like.

 

So where's the 360 clones? Did they move on to Xbox One clones?

 

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