Next-generation Xbox more like a media hub
Xbox 2 finds its place in Microsofts overall business strategy … still focussing on media for a start …
Microsoft Corp.’s next-generation Xbox gaming console, code-named Xenon, will be more of a digital entertainment hub than its predecessor, making it even more of a PC hybrid than ever …
Xenon’s software will be similar to that of the company’s Media Center edition of Windows … If you’re used to that menu, when you use this Xenon you’ll see a menu a lot like that that lets you get photos, TV, music and all those different things.
The digital home is looming, with Xbox 2 as the central hub … for now it’s just media and entertainment … what about adding home automation as well … hybrids can do many things, and enable new business models … e.g. by adding and offering additional services … business models that must still be designed and/or evaluated …
read more at Seattle PI and Engadget.
