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XBox Released

Posted by michael on from the doing-our-part-to-contribute-to-hype dept.

Gallowglass writes: "Salon has written a review of the Xbox which damns with extremely faint praise." There was a big hoopla in Times Square last night, but apparently no one pied Bill Gates. So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet? :) Update: 11/15 15:23 GMT by M : Okay, I'm sorry. That's green screen of death, not blue screen.

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  1. No GTA3...... by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If the Xbox does not have GTA3 then it is not worth the money.....besides, we all know that it takes MS 3 times to get it right....to bad that in the console market a 3rd time can take you 10 years to get to....by then the Xbox will have been stomped on by PS5

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  2. Re:Sad, sad commentary by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    so will this finaly make apple drop its prices since they will not be the only closed home PC system in town anymore :-)

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  3. No more BSOD by denzo · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Microsoft has actually done something to guarantee against getting a Blue Screen of Death on their XBox systems.

    It's now the Green Screen of Death. :P

  4. Re:Sad, sad commentary by CaseyB · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    It's just another system. It's not the antichrist.

    What kills me, is people promoting Sony and Nintendo over MS, for reasons of business ethics! These companies are at least as predatory and monopolistic as MS ever was, in a nation that practically invented the concept.

  5. Are the service packs out yet? by saintNiX · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And where can I get them?

  6. Oh yeah, I expect Salon to be unbiased with MS. by Shivetya · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    NOT!

    Slashdot editors are really scraping the bottom of the barrel in their overt attempts to bash Microsoft. They do so at any cost, and by that I mean regardless if it makes them look like biased buffoons or not.

    Salon is the last place I go for anything remotely to unbiased reporting. Seems Slashdot wants to follow suit.

    The X-Box should be judged for what it is, and that is an attempt to offer flexibility to developers to make the games they could only wish to create for the PC. Microsoft or not, I would love to see some real creativity in the market that didn't involve a regular game company.

    Can Ms provide that? I don't know, but I won't slight them based upon a Salon review, in fact if Salon bashes them at all I see it as more of a reason to look at the product.

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  7. Green Screen of Death by Uttles · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Tricky move by MS. All the time I was predicting that people were going to get all excited about the Xbox and then they would be greeted with the blue screen of death, but MS fooled us all, it's now green! Haha!

    I beleive an "I told you so" is called for here.

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