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XBox II Revealed, Maybe

Posted by michael on from the real-or-memorex dept.

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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  1. I remain unimpressed by datavortex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    He either comes off as a real interesting guy with encyclopedic knowledge,or a pathological liar with an ax to grind
  2. Planned Obsolescence, Anyone? by surfimp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  3. Re:hacking by Phexro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    actually, video game console manufacturers sell their hardware at a loss, and make up for it by charging for their development environment and/or licensing fees for game developers.

    sounds like a good deal to me. i get a nice linux box, microsoft loses money. everybody wins!