The 4th 'console', from Taiwan?

Acer is planning to release a 'console', J.T. Wang CEO & Chairman of Acer was quoted talking about the current state of the console market, describing it as closed and proprietary, and that they see an opportunity in an open system based on PC technology. What J.T. fails to realize is that consoles are sold at a loss for quite sometime during their existence, and the loss is subsidized through software sales. If Acer is going to follow the open model, how open will they go? will they have any word on what software goes into it? Who will develop for them?

Will it be a Windows box in another form factor? As conveyed by being 'based on PC technology', if so, then they'll have no control over the software! Or do they mean by 'PC technology' an x86-64 processor based console, kind of like the original XBox.

Or will it be another MSX or 3DO? The two consoles were supposed to be 'open design' outsourced to hardware companies to manufacture. Both were a failure! But I don't think that's what Acer is going for, they are after all a hardware manufacturer.

Things should be getting interesting in the console market, there were previous rumors about EA and even Apple, considering entering the console world.