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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
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.)
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...
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!