Microsoft planning for multicomponent gaming
Unwiredview recently dug up a Microsoft patent that could have some serious implications for their gaming business. With plans that put Nintendo’s best efforts at multicomponent gaming to shame, Microsoft could be getting ready to change how you experience games.
Microsoft’s patent covers a vast array of multicomponent connectivity. The pataent ranges from connecting a handheld gaming device to your console, and then using the processing power of the handheld device to supplement the power of the console to using your docked Zune to integrate your surround sound into your console. Another example includes storing save games from a handheld device on your console’s memory.
While Microsoft dreams big, the practicality of the system envisioned in the filed patent is doubtful for the time being. While being able to connect your thousands of dollars worth of electronics together seamlessly is nice in theory, it doesn’t do much for the consumers who can’t afford to buy every product Microsoft releases.
Thanks to nofear360 for submitting.
360 handheld coming soon…still think its a bad idea. Nintendo rules pocket gaming.
snakeyes your not ogc anymore
nintendo rules pocket gaming because microsoft doesn’t have a handheld game system yet.
no nintendo just rules pocket gaming. regardless, they have the upper hand, just like M$ did because they had 360 out a year earlier. theyve had a lot more time to fine tune 360 and build up a library as well as establish a really solid Live system with XBLM and XBLA. DS already has a huge library with a ton of good games and its still selling like hotcakes, especially in japan. they still line up to get DS’s, not just Wii’s. they also use their DS for everything. from books to travel guides to cooking recipes. the japanese market for the DS is 10 fold the versatility of any other system hands down.
k…?
still look at psp it seems good but look at sales
Microsoft better not go the way of the Sony and relase a crap handheld. Focus on 360 for the time being!!!!!
if only people knew how to utilize the psp like i do it would sell out like no other handheld before it.
The PSP is a wonderful piece of hardware, but Sony abandoned it. The games have been poor and the promised add ons have just never come.
wakeboardnmoto: Yeah, but its software sales that drive consoles. Piracy/emulation doesn’t make the psp any better re: new games, so selling out for that reason doesn’t mean shit.
ya but all that a side,you cant tell me you wouldn’t but a ms hand held if the put halo 1 on it with the org. xbox’s graphics…then integrate xbl into it with wifi, and have like a mini marketplace…i can only dream
1.Exactly, dream
2. I completely agree that the PSP is great, but abandoned by sony. So wakeboardnmoto, how do you get the full potential from your PSP?
It’ll most likely have reached a stage near that by the time the next xbox is released