Has it been tough to convince people the software won be a bunch of rejiggered PC games?
We went out to game developers last year and said, “Here are the hardware choices we made based on your feedback.” We chose an Intel processor because it has the best tools of any processor in history, and it’s extremely fast…We put in a hard drive because developers wanted that to build huge worlds and do really interesting online stuff. Developing games for Xbox Seamus Blackley, Xbox technology officer, Microsoft And then the media, without the context of those conversations, sees it has an Intel processor and a hard drive–it’s a PC! It’s just kind of funny. Dude, game consoles are computers. Every game console in history has been a computer. They can all run spreadsheets. It’s just you’d never write one because that’s not your audience. I understand where that rumor comes from, and it’s never going away until people can actually use the product and see that it’s a game console and it behaves like a game console. But a lot of developers here have been saying, “We mainly do PC game
