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No X Box for Xmas?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-i-want-for-christmas-is-my-2-front-teeth dept.

occam writes "Nagging question in gaming console industry seems to be whether MS will make its Xbox launch in fall (as promised). Knowing MS, it seems unlikely, especially since an unstable console isn't nearly as useful as an unstable office PC (with an army of IT heads running around to support it). Plus, despite the heavy-hitting nVidia hardware in the Xbox, every month is ground lost to the PS2 and potentially also the Nintendo Cube. Daily radar has a good piece on the hurdles (even) MS faces with its Xbox launch, and why they'll try like heck to make their fall date. The 7 reasons why Microsoft cannot afford to push back the launch of the Xbox. Ironically, release in time for Christmas is not mentioned! So, there's an 8th reason MS needs to release on time."

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  1. Re:MS can release whenever they like... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4

    Hmm... I can't comment on any of the unsubstantiated claims in this post, but I can say one thing, with a high degree of assurance.

    Nintendo have somewhere in the vicinity of 20 developers for GameCube, which pales in comparison to Microsoft's hundereds.

    More developers != better product (note for logically-challenged: more developers != worse product either). Especially in hardware, where understanding the whole (or large portions of it) is important.

    Witness K7 vs Willamette. Intel had more than 5x the developers on that project than AMD had, and the result is well documented.

    Have a nice day.

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  2. no Xbox for europe in 2001 by Arlet · · Score: 5

    Microsoft has admitted that the Xbox will not be released in Europe before 2002. Read this article:
    http://www.vnunet.com/News/1115777

  3. The XBOX OS is more stable than windows. by 0xffffffff · · Score: 4

    Really people, when you take all that shit out of windows and only run the core (no services, a couple processes, simple memory management), it's not that bad of an OS for gaming. As an Xbox developer, I haven't found that much to cry about - at all. There are some bugs, but they have workarounds and have to do with the graphics hardware. It basically feels like DOS with a bunch of Win32 libraries... You could never run Excel on it ;)

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