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XBox II Revealed, Maybe
aka-ed writes: "PC Format in the UK claims to have scooped the world with a look at Home Station, an apparent successor to XBox. A multimedia gateway that sits between you and that broadband window on the world, with MS the Gatekeeper. It looks cool, and it's a product of Satan! Who wants to be bad?" "Claims" is the operative word in the above. Update: 09/09 12:42 PM GMT by M : And it's even a duplicate story. Well, news is a little slow at zero-dark-thirty Sunday morning...
...they do make it flat-topped like the (obviously fabricated) illustration. Making the top of the xbox curved so you can't stack stuff on it is just rude.
At first, companies made money by making hardware, a la IBM. Then MS came on the scene and made computers a commodity and software the place for big margins. Now that Linux and the Internet has made proprietary, licensed software somewhat unnecessary, MS is getting into the hardware game. It's come full circle.
A speech...
looks a lot like this one doesn'it?
what will really be interesting will be the hacking projects.
:)
whether you can actually play games on it or not, Linux on the Xbox will be too cool (and spite MSFT like nothing other
And, more important, why Microsoft whoring (X-Box announcements, "Pocket PC good, Palm bad", any comment along the lines "Resistance is futile") is both considered a good idea for articles, and in comments?
Slashdot wants to make things look more controversial? Well, it succeeded -- when I am sick of Microsoft and Microsoft-inspired idiocy at work, I look at Slashdot and see more Microsoft idiocy. I mean, ok, there was one announcement about HomeStation, people talked (and karma-whored) a lot about it, we have hard multiple times again why everyone except Microsoft supporters should just wrap himself in a sheet and slowly crawl to a cemetery because Microsoft will own everything, but why should we be subjected to this bullshit again?
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
What was the point of that last comment? Aren't people allowed to admit that MS could put together something that looks good. Of all the editors here, you are the most fucken retarded. When slashdot bites it, you aer out of a job with nowhere to go. I will never stop laughing at you.
... no more comments about Slashdot editors.
it's in my head
The children that I'm planning on having just announced that they're going to have children! I'm going to be a grandfather! Woo-hoo!
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I'm guessing strong arm tatics are going to kill any chance of running X on my TV huh? We all know every major network/film studio/EVERYONE will have to work with the MS only set top box standard.
Please support the Linux project - I don't want to watch MSNBC all day!
Get your Unix fortune now!
...when you've bought it, there's already something better(?) out. :)
They're trying to make a little dinky console do too much. I don't think that anyone (especially Microsoft) can integrate so many disparate functions so easily. They should have just stuck more with trying to make it competitive in its core purpose: gaming. I just want my stinking gamecube.
He either comes off as a real interesting guy with encyclopedic knowledge,or a pathological liar with an ax to grind
http://www.pcformat.co.uk/upload_images/back.jpg
Xbox has not yet failed and Microsoft are thinking about Xbox II?
I have it on good authority that the box will actually be called "My Games Console".
Can I have my 4 karma points now? (with apologies to Ayon Rantz.)
Why, thanks! Laden or unladen?
Xbox-III will be the killer, remember they don't get anything right until at least version 3.0
While this sort of thing is certainly normal, it's kind of shocking to see XBoxII well along in it's development before XBoxI has even hit the store shelves. This thing's product lifecycle makes Microsoft's proposed 3-year licensing/upgrade scheme look pretty tame by comparison.
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Sure, it's just a faked image and a stupid story to boot. But can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?!?!?
*GRIN*
Yes, we can all see it's not a photograph, but a computer-generated image. But does that in ANY WAY AT ALL challenge its authenticity? Do you ever see Any Photographs of what a new product is going to look like just after the first rumors of it came out? Of course not. The actual product hasnt been made yet, so there are no photographs. /fake/? Not at all. In fact my only problem with the image is the font used to write out "Home Station" is one not made by Microsoft, and they probably wouldnt want to go through any legal battles when the original creator decides that he has a stake in the trademark.
Did you see a Photograph of the Playstation 2 when people first started hearing about that? No, of course you didnt, you saw a Computer-Generated image of what they thought it was going to look like.
Of course the image is Manufactured, The Product hasnt been Made yet. Because it's manufactured, does that make it
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Bill is just plain great.
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MS is announcing this well, well in advance to make it look like the X-Box 1st edition look more promising. Good strategy, even the Slashdot geeks have fallen for it! :)
It's all vaporware. there is no such thing. the people at PC Format aer a bunch of asses looking for another story to fill their pages.
just the national enquirer of tech.
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
With Direct 3D, it took until at least version 7 to even get close...
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
Microsoft is just about to release the XBox, and already talk about the successor/set top box version/pr0n machine/whatever. Remember the PS2? Remember the rumors about PS3? If you guys aren't satisfied with that is comming our way, live with the fact that there won't be a super machine just around the corner...
Its funny, XBOX isn't even out here in portugal (as well as i'm aware of) , and they're already talking about the XBOX 2, ok, ok, i know i live in a 3rd world country.. , but have u guys fiddle enough with the XBOX to be asking for an XBOX 2 already ..
I fuse with Mercer every single day...
the xbox still isn't for sale.
not like this article is premature or anything...
I had to reload the main page twice because I was sure I saw the news before...
before the PS2 came out sony already had plans for the ps3 and i working on the ps4 even as we speak. PS3 will be out in 2003, so if you don't already have a PS2, you might as well wait.
Yeah, but when it comes down to it ... Microsoft will be losing money on the XBOX hardware, and only making that money back on the software. That's why they promote bundling ... to offset some of that initial loss right up-front.
Sir, you are full of shit indeed, but your comment was more Offtopic than otherwise. See those moderators in Metamod .
Sincerely, Mike Bouma
If Microsoft makes their products like they write their code... we're all in a lot of trouble ;-)
eh, food for thought...
With Mickysoft's dysmal track record for security, a device like that should be a juicy target for hackers. 'Homestation', indeed! If MS get their tentacles in bed with X10 we should finally be able to hook into all those voyeur spycams they been selling. I'm so not gonna allow any MS 'devices' in my house, on my LAN - no fricking way.
A: "Its a Game Machine."
B: "Its a Digital Recorder."
A: "Game Machine!"
B: "Digital Recorder!!!"
MS: "Its a Game Machine AND a Digital Recorder!"
Sound familiar?
IV
"These laws they're passing won't even compile anymore, let alone execute." - anon
Interesting timing.
Because, like the XBox, HomeStation is going to be 100 times better than anything else available today. In fact when Microsoft announces a future product any competitor might as well consider it here today.
You can be sure any company in the "home entertainment nexus" business, and there are many, who sees that Microsoft is going to enter it some time in the future is going to get out of the business soon enough. The fact that we've seen nothing but XBox news for most of 2001 even though the XBox was never sold and probably never will be is immaterial. What matters is the perception.
Just as Microsoft might as well have sold millions of XBoxes in 2001. Microsoft might as well have sold millions of HomeStations in 2001 too.
Now, the REAL question is whether or not THIS post will get modded +1 Informative.
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Not every version of DirectX was made publically available.
Michael, what does this story duplicate?
And, since I posted this Saturday afternoon, what's this about early am Sunday?
Don't be messing with my karma!
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I don't know if everyone just doesn't have the eyes for it or what, but the picture in the article is a 3d rendered model :>
MS can't profit from broadband content-on-demand as long as end users have hard drives, because hard drives allow for piracy. To stop piracy, MS has to stop HDs.
The ideal entertainment center (from MS's point of view) is broadband plus a smart card reader, game controller, DV camera, microphone, speakers and monitor. With that set up, not only do consumers get content on demand by payment on request, but they also get videophones that double as a spying device! Otherwise, customers have privacy and piracy, which they don't want us to have.
So, as long as MS is using broadband and hard drive in the same sentence, they're not that serious about becoming entertainment leaders.
free kiddie porn? -jr'axis
Sounds like BS to make people support the X-box so we can then reap the benefits of this "amazing" next product.
You people will believe anything you read.
PlaySTATION... HomeSTATION... I smell legal action! :-)
Thanks.
If i run X windows on this will it really be an X-box :)
Having asked a question about homestation on the MS xbox group, there came an answer from a sender with an IP from within microsoft saying:
'don't believe everything you read'
The real question is ofcourse now 'written by who?'
PC Format has a lot to gain with enormous exposure, but MS has even more to lose if it already shows the 'next step after Xbox' and consumers wait with buying an XBox.
Should microsoft stay silent on it though (officially that is), i think its time to take the article serious, and have another look at the options.
Leon
If this product takes over I am leaving the industry.
you could get your own cows and garlic, but then you have to rely on the sun for energy, god you guys are lazy, that poor sun, having to give power to everyone at the cost of burning itself up in a few billion years!
Personally I am really, really, really sick of this whole "computer as a componiant philosophy". Computers will always be distinct from entertainment systems. This is just another technology that noone asked for like HDTV, WAP and Webterminals. The only people who dig shit like this are marketing exec's who fantasise about total market penatration and hardware geeks who what to put linux on it. Not to dis M$ but they seem to be falling into this trap hook, line and sinker with the xbox and now this home station. This thing is never going to float
Amiga tryed this same idea years ago with the cdtv and it was a complete flop and since then it has been shown over and over again that the market does not what to pay more then $199 for a console with the failure of the 3do etc etc
Feature creep and hardware bloat are all right if your are a monopolistic software company only interested in crushing any possible competition before they can even gain ground but they are not the things that you what to see in a console. Consoles are simple single use item's that my grandmother could use, who the hell is going to do ten different thing's from it just cause all the games aint worth playing.
Clearly, at some stage the point of computers got perverted.
The whole point of computer's are not to provide a mean's to access MSN or AOL but that of simple personal empowerment. PC's where created becasue some guy/girl got sick and tired of having to rent time on the local college mainframe. Computers are used for writing reports, compiling program's, touching up photo's and, recentlly, editing home movies. Could someone please tell M$ that cause they dont seem to have a clue if they continue to come up with crap like this IMHO.
The speculation on the M$Box2, the GameCube (a crap-bucket if I ever saw one) whatever Sony's working on next, and the disappointment (IMHO) of the GBA... makes me glad I can still pick up a TurboGrafx 16 or a SNES for $20 and games for next to nothing.
Metroid and Pole Position II will live forever-- or at least longer than Pokemon.
which said:
'any non-announced project from Microsoft is just that.
many things get looked at, few get chosen.
take any "behind-the-scenes" news like this - take it with a grain of salt -
as until it becomes an announced project its all speculation.'
Which sort of confirms they are working on it, though nothing is definate.
Make of it what you want, but its definatly not 'just games' MS is after.
Leon
-no brain, no pain