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Coming Soon: The DISCover... a console that will play any WindowsXP PC game

post #1 of 5
1/7/04 at 12:16pm
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This thing is destined to either flop or be the biggest bane of all to diehard PC gamers.

Apex is making one... and so is Alienware!!

My interest is piqued:

http://www.discoverconsole.com/
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post #2 of 5
1/7/04 at 12:42pm
Interesting to say the least and don't expect vaulted perdicitions outta me on the subject. I'll leave that to all the other 'prophets' we got around here.
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post #3 of 5
1/7/04 at 12:50pm
Interesting. PC gaming at console price points and ease of use. The drawback is that to play at higher resolutions for HDTV and to upgrade when your hardware inevitably becomes obsolete (and much faster than a standard console), you'll have to have one of their "higher-end" models which come at an unnamed price. It may still be just as cheap to upgrade my PC, so I'll really only be getting the convenience of playing on my TV.

Then again, it would be nice to play Half Life 2 on my home theater.
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post #4 of 5
1/7/04 at 11:42pm
Wasnt this what the Phantom was?
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post #5 of 5
1/8/04 at 1:01am
Definitely a neat idea, but I'd like to see some specs. For $399, that's pretty steep just for the ability to play PC games on your TV. And that's just the base model. And, at that price, will it actually play Doom 3 and Half Life 2?

Like Egg said, it will probably be just as cheap (if not cheaper) to upgrade your PC, or to even build one from scratch. Sans monitor, you can build a pretty good PC for $399.
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