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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.
... no more comments about Slashdot editors.
it's in my head
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
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.)
>Linux on the Xbox will be too cool (and spite :)
>MSFT like nothing other
Anyone taking bets that MS will try to get something into the license that would somehow make it a violation of the DMCA to run any other OS on this thing?
-l
If a significant percentage of the Slashdot readership is willing to buy an X-box for the sake of a Linux hack... maybe Microsoft finally found a way to make money out of this "Free Software" thingie...
Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
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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more likely the xbox will be full of winmodem like hardware. this will make it very diffacult to put linux on it in any usable form.
-- john
the xbox still isn't for sale.
not like this article is premature or anything...
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!
Actually it looks to me like they're somehow making most of their money off beta software and product announcements. How is it we have the XboxII when Xbox (one) hasn't even been released and successful?
I do not have a signature
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
It's Microsoft, they'll go through several generations of product without caring about success.
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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.
Yeah, but it's an alarmingly stupid move. People will hold off buying X-Box because they're waiting for X-Box II to come out... especially in an unenthusiastic economy.