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Microsoft HomeStation - Son Of XBox Revealed
An unnamed reader contributes this link: "PC Formathave story about Microsoft's follow up to the XBox. Rumor is it's a home entertainment centre called HomeStation. It'll offer video and TV on demand, and act as an internet gateway for internet appliances. Profiling is mentioned. The story makes an interesting point about how the XBox's true purpose is to pave the way for Microsoft as a home entertainment brand."
I have it on good authority that the box will actually be called "My Games Console".
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Gotta catch you all!
I wonder who's really got the domain. Network Solutions shows it expired in May, 2000.
Registrant: Sue Almand (HOMESTATION-DOM)
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
US
Domain Name: HOMESTATION.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Almand, Sue (SA4428) scalmand@EARTHLINK.NET
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach,, FL 32233
904-246-0131
Technical Contact:
Eclipse Communications Hostmaster (EC136-ORG) hostmaster@ECLIPSE-COMM.COM
Eclipse Communications
701 W. 4th St.
South Pittsburg, TN 37380
US
423-837-4955
Fax- - 423-629-6121
Record last updated on 26-Jul-2001.
Record expires on 23-May-2000.
Record created on 23-May-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Sep-2001 18:26:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ECLIPSE-COMM.COM 209.75.67.159
NS2.ECLIPSE-COMM.COM 209.75.67.160
I haven't even seen an XBox in the flesh yet. Surely advertising it's predecessor won't do XBox sales any good. There are bound to be people who'll be thinking "Hmmmm......I don't think I'll but that XBox now, I'll wait for the next one."
/.? This is the first time I've been able to log in for the last 24 hours. Why doesn't someone just post an article explaining the problem instead of seemingly pretending that nothing is wrong?
On a side note: What is going on with
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This has to be a hoax. The picture on the site is terrible, and the details don't make much sense (will be able to play PC games? what PC games? how, if it's a locked down 2nd generation XBox?)
And "HomeStation"? I mean, com'on, you mean to tell me that MS will spend millions promoting the XBox brand and they will not use it for this (call it XBox TV or something?). I don't buy it.
Games-wise, it's anticipated HomeStation will play both PC and Xbox titles.
MS is entering some interesting territory, they are COMPETING with their own customers. Compaq, Dell, IBM *also* sell PCs for this purpose... I wonder how they will feel when the XBox v2.0 starts to serve the same functions, in the home setting, as their product.
One of the cardinal rules of business: Never take a product 'direct' to market, and compete with your customers with the product that they BUY FROM YOU. It will leave a bad taste in the mouths of the people who *used* to be your customers.. there will be desire, on their part, to collectively THUMP you.
The Xbox is the single-handedly most astonishingly brash thing MS is doing right now - they are really looking at taking over the Home-PC market. Will XBox v4.0 be a Proprietary Computer? Will MS start selling full featured PC work-a-likes, sure they might call them appliances... but if it smells like a monopoly, and acts like a monopoly....