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...

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Hey everyone!

[wrinkledshirt]

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!

Time to postpone my home entertainment purchases

[heroine]

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.