I'll be the 1st in line... Sichuan Changhong Electric Entertainment System.... or SCEES (pronounced 'skEEze') for short.... rolls right off the tongue, eh?Quote:
A REPORT IN THE TAIWANESE press claims a Chinese company will attack Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft by introducing its own video game consoles.
The Economic News quoted the chairman of Sichuan Changhong Electric – a massive TV firm on the mainland, as saying that his firm will take a lead from Sony.
Changhong – which made 12 million TV sets last year -- has already approached a number of Taiwanese manufacturers with a view to making the consoles, the newspaper reports.
It has plants in China but is also building a factory in Russia.
The firm has already approached a Taiwanese chip firm, Sunplus, to design microcontrollers for the machines, and is also talking to some Japanese majors.
The newspaper reports that the firm will take on Sony with its PS2, Nintendo with its Gameboy and Gamecube, and Microsoft with its Xbox.
The time scale for the Chinese venture appears to be two years. µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/28050207.htm
