Acer is Making a Game Console!?
As some of you likely know, Acer makes laptops. Now Acer’s Senior Vice President says that they’re making a game console, that will be based on an ‘open’ philosophy.
I hate to predict failure, but this strikes me as ‘this is going to fail spectacularly’ material. Basically, it looks like they’re trying to create a PC 2.0 type monster. In other words, it could end up having the same problems as a PC: Hardware issues, hacking issues, and piracy issues.
Issues 1 and 3 make development difficult; issues 1 and 2 make playing difficult. Add to these the fact that Acer doesn’t have much experience with making software and you have a recipe for failure. And unlike Microsoft, they don’t have money to throw away getting something wrong.