On Xbox's Progression, Positioning For The Future

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 16, 2004 @04:23AM from the power-of-x dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for its article charting the progression of the Xbox from its launch to the present day, with the author's introduction suggesting: "For Microsoft, the video-game industry has been a whiplash rollercoaster ride with lucrative peaks, costly valleys, and a changing list of passengers going along for the ride." After charting a timeline for Xbox's history so far, he concludes: "Xbox has not lived up to all of the predictions, but Microsoft has more than made its point. After two years and two months on the market, the numbers speak for themselves." Has the Xbox been all you expected and wanted it to be?

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Following Nintendo by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-16 09:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

So...they're using a similar chipset to the GameCube, taking out the harddrive like the GameCube, trying to be a price-competitive system much like the GameCube, and they say "I think that the idea that game consoles are going to take over all processing in the livingroom has been tested and has failed," suggesting that they're going to take up the philosophy which Nintendo stood by for GameCube.
There were doubters about Nintendo's philosophy back in 2002, but I guess that's a +5 Insightful in retrospect.