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The taiwanese Notebook manufacturer Acer plans to enter into the console market. This communicated the senior Vice President, James T. Wong, on a press conference. Most current consoles are closed and proprietaery systems, which machine" on PC technology based "game machine"; from Acer is to set against it on open standards. This could mean that game developers would not have to pay license fees for the publication of plays on this system.
Acer eyes future desktop systems, including game machine
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
March 13, 2008, 10:14 AM
Over the next year, Taiwan-based notebook PC maker Acer will start toproduce desktop units under the Acer brand...and a senior Acer officialtold BetaNews yesterday that a PC-based game machine is one of theideas being bandied about.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - Right now, the Acer brand name is stillequated with PC notebooks only, despite Acer's acquisition of Gateway.But in an interview with BetaNews at its press event on Wednesday,Acer's senior vice president, James T. Wong, said that his company hasa game machine in mind, and that it will be based on "open standards."
"If you look at most of the other game machines that are out thereright now -- Nintendo's, the Xbox -- they are 'closed' and proprietarysystems," he told BetaNews.
Wong said that, beyond "openness," all of the Acer-branded systemsbeing eyed right now, including the game machine, are envisioned asoffering new and innovative form factors and applications.
In addition to its future Acer-branded desktop PCs, however, Acer willalso provide desktop systems under the Gateway name, as well as underthe eMachines and Packard Bell brands inherited through the Gatewaybuyout, according to the senior VP. The Acer, Gateway, eMachines, andPackard Bell desktop systems will each incorporate two separateline-ups, one for consumers and the other for SMBs (small tomedium-sized businesses), he said.
During a press conference attended by BetaNews earlier on Wednesday,which focused mainly on Acer's notebook PC products and strategy,officials cited Gateway's expertise in desktop systems as a big reasonfor buying that company.
But Wong told BetaNews that Acer had already been making desktop PCsfor other vendors, anyway, with desktop systems constituting some 30percent of Acer's huge OEM business.
Acer, though, will not be offering either desktop or notebook PCsgeared to enterprise use, at least for now, according to the executive.
"You need different kinds of resources for [enterprise systems], and wedon't have those kinds of resources right now," he told BetaNews.
During a press conference attended by BetaNews earlier on Wednesday, which focused mainly on Acer's notebook PC products and strategy, officials cited Gateway's expertise in desktop systems as a big reason for buying that company.
But Wong told BetaNews that Acer had already been making desktop PCs for other vendors, anyway, with desktop systems constituting some 30 percent of Acer's huge OEM business.
Acer, though, will not be offering either desktop or notebook PCs geared to enterprise use, at least for now, according to the executive.
"You need different kinds of resources for [enterprise systems], and we don't have those kinds of resources right now," he told BetaNews.
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