WHY MICHAEL DELL IS WRONG.
- For Immediate Release January 16, 2007
Recently, while speaking at the Austin Game Conference,
Michael Dell, founder of the unstoppable Dell computer
offered his optimistic views on the future of PC gaming
(http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10821).
This would appear to be a natural conclusion based on
Dell’s recent acquisition of Alienware.
But Eli Tomlinson, founder of Gamix, has a very
different view of the future of PC gaming. “The
PC is dead.” “Without a complete
reinvention of the PC, the videogame system is destined
to rule the home. PCs will continue to exist for those
professionals that want to bring their work experience
home; but the PCs reach into consumers’ recreational
time will continue to be marginalized.”
But is that the unavoidable future? “No!” says Eli. “The
PC must deliver the consistency and simplicity consumers
expect from the game consoles. The PC inherently has so
many market advantages over proprietary consoles, but
for thirty years has failed to deliver on the promise of
being easier-to-use. Microsoft Vista, and the Xbox
clearly demonstrate that Microsoft believes that game
consoles are for the home and PCs are for the office.”
Gamix is an open gaming platform based on the PC. The
concept is to give consumers the simplicity of the game
consoles while maintaining the power, flexibility, and
variety of the PC.
“Michael Dell is obviously one of the true leaders and
visionaries of the PC industry. His accomplishments
speak for themselves. But staying the course in the PC
gaming market is not going to work. The time is right
for a reinvention of the home computer- a reinvention as
dramatic as IBM’s original PC. Certainly a company with
the resources of Dell could lead such a revolution.
The question is when.” - Eli Tomlinson
For more information,
Visit:
http://www.gamix.org
E-mail: info@gamix.org
Write or call:
Gamix
1129 Rundle Street
Scranton, PA 18504
Eli Tomlinson: (570) 840-9942