Posted on 5/28/2002


"A REPORT IN THE TAIWANESE press claims a Chinese company will attack Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft by introducing its own video game consoles.
The Economic News quoted the chairman of Sichuan Changhong Electric – a massive TV firm on the mainland, as saying that his firm will take a lead from Sony.

Changhong – which made 12 million TV sets last year -- has already approached a number of Taiwanese manufacturers with a view to making the consoles, the newspaper reports.

It has plants in China but is also building a factory in Russia.

The firm has already approached a Taiwanese chip firm, Sunplus, to design microcontrollers for the machines, and is also talking to some Japanese majors."

ETA: 2 years and lets hope they don't call it something cliché like the "red box" or the "commu-nes" and if they do kick me back some of the money for those names ;)

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