1.   Pippin was hyped as a games machine before the company wised up and starting touting it as an Internet device.

2.   But are families really willing to put a games machine in the center of their living rooms?

3.   It took Sony and its first games machine, the Playstation, to break out of the toy niche and reach adults.

4.   The Wall Street Journal reported at the time, that Olafsson had disagreed with senior Sony executives over the pricing of the PlayStation games machine.

5.   With games machines as their base, they have the opportunity to put all the parts together in a way that their competitors cannot.