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Japan Will Have To Wait For Xbox

Posted by timothy on from the ebay-plus-shipping-equals-profit dept.

securitas contributed a link to this New York Times article which indicates a delay in the Japanese release of the Xbox. "MS insists it's going to meet its Nov. 8 North American release date. I'll believe it when I see it. Also, Namco has signed on to produce 4 games for Xbox including 2 exclusives." Ledge adds a link to this AP story carried by Fox News as well: upshot is that units won't go on sale in Japan till Feb. 22. (A chart comparing announced vs. actual dates for all the consoles would be interesting, since they all seem to be delayed.)

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  1. Microsoft could quite well deliver on time... by r_newman · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... let's not forget, they can always release the bug fixes at a later point, as they do with all of their products. In fact, releleasing the X-B(oll)ox on time with a number of bugs would only make them money... you DON'T think they'll give away their "upgrades" free, do you?

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  2. Let's see, I want an Xbox for... by Powercntrl · · Score: 1, Troll

    1. Hack value. You *know* someone will get Linux running on that thing. At the very least I could gut it for the CPU and return it. (It's manufactured by the evil empire, they can deal with some fradulent RMA.) Wait, with Intel's recent price cuts, by the time the Xbox is released, a P3 750MHz would probably cost less than the gas it would take to drive to and from the store. Oh well.

    2. It's not easily confused with an IBM PS/2. But wait, that still doesn't make me want one. Shit.

    3. It looks cool. I can impress all my... Nevermind.

    4. I could play boatloads of cutting-egde, white-knuckle, edge-of-your-seat, blast-in-your-face 3D hyper-accelerated games. Hmm, Duke Nukem Forever is still vaporware and probably won't be released for Xbox anyway. Guess not then.

    5. It will make my writeups on E2 get C!'d and give me lots of /. karma. No it won't, why the fsck I write that? I think I'm being hit with a Microsoft Mind Control Beam(TM).

    6. I can get something high-tech before the Japanese. Only problem... Microsoft != High Tech

    Gee, I guess I DON'T want an Xbox!

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  3. Re:It's all about the games by Glytch · · Score: 2, Troll

    So do I (in electronics at a chain store where we wear blue vests and do a stupid cheer every morning) and the only thing people ask me about is PS2 and Gamecube. When I mention that Microsoft is coming out with a console at about the same time as Nintendo, they all ask what games will be on it. When I answer, they ask "Isn't that on computer anyway?"

    Not a single person I have ever talked to wants an XBox. It's simply a non-issue.