Taito's new arcade standard

kanakura

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Taito has made an aggressive move in the arcade industry with the announcement of a windows XP-based system architecture. The system takes the windows base, and takes away everything used for 'not-games', leaving a solid shell for Direct X product. They're calling it the Type X, appropriately. The CPU is a Celeron 2.5GHz Intel 865G chipset. Games copy to the harddrive of the TypeX via a security-encrypted USB drive, and windows games can be nearly directly 'ported.' And because it's windows architecture, they do have plans to bring it overseas, namely the west. They can't name any specific license they've acquired for the new arcade system, but with the Falcom/Aruze announcement on the third, and the Taito/Falcom announcement not two days before that, I think we've got candidate #1 lined straight up. The aim is to create a new industry standard - serious competition to the Atomiswave.

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WOW!! challenging the Atomiswave... :spock:
 
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Certainly looks a lot more powerful than the Atomiswave. Might even be easier to develop for too. Question is, will it be primarly for 3D or 2D?
 
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Could be interesting, I wonder what kind of GPU it will have. Possibly an industry standard chipset from ATI or nVidia?
 
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It sounds a bit weird as a platform choice but anything that has the slightest chance of helping to revive the American arcade scene should be looked upon as good news. (I would of gone with an AMD based platform though :p)
 
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Fygee said:
Certainly looks a lot more powerful than the Atomiswave. Might even be easier to develop for too. Question is, will it be primarly for 3D or 2D?
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I would be it's 3D, but since it's windows based (meh) it can be anything.
 
Syxx573

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This has nothing to do with neither Neo nor Geo and there's already a topic in unrelated, which is what this is.
 
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