Hudson Soft's 32-Bit CPU: 'POEMS' for new system ????

[Megadrive1988]

saw this on Gaming-Age from Brimstone

http://ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=21105

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Hudson Softs new 32bit CPU: POEMS? Anyone know about it?

So where is it and what is it going to used for?

The makers of the PC Engine have a new CPU hardware called POEMS (POrtable Entertainment Mixed Solution). It's supposed to out in products by the end of the year, yet I've read nothing about it.


“Xtensa will enable us to deliver breakthrough graphics quality to manufacturers of small, battery-operated hand-held devices as well as specialty entertainment consoles,â€￾ said Satoshi Murakami, executive officer, Core Technology Division, Hudson Soft. “The ability to configure and extend the Xtensa processor to our exact needs lets us get maximum performance with a shorter time to market.â€￾



Press release from 2002
http://www.tensilica.com/html/pr_2002_10_15.html

What is a specialty entertainment console? NEC to release a new PC Engine maybe? Around the same time that Hudson Soft licensed Xtensa, they also licensed Mosys 1T-SRAM similar to what Nintendo's Gamecube uses.

than after Googling for Hudson Soft POEMS, I found:

http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/eng/coinfo/contents.html

Production of original, high-quality content and technologies. In the future, we hope to take advantage of our past research to create new opportunities for business through alliances with other companies. This year, we expect our partners to release a number of products utilizing Hudson's revolutionary POEMS semiconductor.

http://www.hudson.co.jp/ct/eng/index.html

The Core-Technology Division was founded in 1992 to house Hudson's Research & Development department. Amidst a rich natural environment, courtesy of neighboring Sapporo City's Art Park, Hudson engineers push the creative envelope in their ongoing R&D efforts. Our goal is to create Hudson's elemental and applied technology.

We provide enhancement tools for game platforms based on HVQ, the next generation Hybrid Vector Quantization technology. In addition, we develop semiconductor and software technologies with the objective of seamless integration for business and technology.

We have provided an impressive list of successful technologies, including the development of our original game console ("PC Engine" and "PC-FX"), development environments, libraries and compilers for successive game platforms, semiconductors and devices for game consoles. With the accumulated technical and business know-how of each platform generation, our knowledge and reputation evolve. We are working not only on specific devices but also on various technologies supporting the game content business. Indeed, we produce Hudson's core technology.

I would love to see something from Hudson Soft and NEC again.
something more mainstream than the PC-FX.

how about a "PC Engine 4"

(PC-Engine 2 = SuperGrafx, PC-Engine 3 = PC-FX)

call the new system 'PC-Engine 4' in Japan and 'UltraGrafx' in the U.S. 8)

or new computer along the lines of the 16-Bit Sharp X68000 which also used Hudson Soft custom chipset.

then it also gets made into a handheld with same or
similar performance, like PC-Engine/TurboGrafx ==> PC-Engine GT/ Turbo Express or perhaps like PS2 ==> PSP.


I can see a market for this at least in Japan, much like there's a market for Xbox outside Japan.

 

[Lazy8s]

Sounds like they're working towards a low cost set-top box or arcade platform or possibly a handheld platform, something like MBX Pro.

 

[Brimstone]

I've posted about Tensilica and Hudson Soft several times here in the past. I finally got my Gaming Age account activated, so I posted over there. It took months for them to activate my account, but I guess better late then never.

The big question is what are they making?

 

[one]

One of its first applications is PLAY-POEMS by Konami. It's a special console or toy for games that require additional peripherals and your physical movement. If it's a tennis game with a racket hardware, you swing it and a character in TV moves by your actual swing. Probably a mimic competitor against XaviX (subsidiary of Japanese Shinsedai which is rumored to be founded by spinout people from Nintendo).

In other words, POEMS won't be used for a pure console market IMO, while you may see its customized applications among those toys and cellphones.

 

[Evil_Cloud]

Genious.

 

[Brimstone]

One of its first applications is PLAY-POEMS by Konami. It's a special console or toy for games that require additional peripherals and your physical movement. If it's a tennis game with a racket hardware, you swing it and a character in TV moves by your actual swing. Probably a mimic competitor against XaviX (subsidiary of Japanese Shinsedai which is rumored to be founded by spinout people from Nintendo).

In other words, POEMS won't be used for a pure console market IMO, while you may see its customized applications among those toys and cellphones.

Thanks for the links.

I wasn't aware of the Xavix system? Is that out?

Konami has Baseball and Golf, so I'm sure Tennis isn't far behind. Maybe Bowling like the Xavix system has also. I'd like to see a gun game where your body movement are tracked as you play. The next step beyond Namco's Times Crisis.

 

[Farid]

I'd like to see a gun game where your body movement are tracked as you play. The next step beyond Namco's Times Crisis.

Konami, again, already done it on arcade and on the PS2. It's called Police 24/7 (a.k.a Police 911).

 

[Brimstone]

I'd like to see a gun game where your body movement are tracked as you play. The next step beyond Namco's Times Crisis.

Konami, again, already done it on arcade and on the PS2. It's called Police 24/7 (a.k.a Police 911).

What do they use to track your body movements? The Eye-Toy?

Poems and Xavix seem to use Infrared tracking.