Xbox 2 Plans on Schedule

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Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @04:50AM from the next-next-gen dept.

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for their article regarding the manufacturing plans for the Xbox 2. "Speaking at a press conference, senior vice president Kenneth Kin said that ... manufacturing plans for Xbox 2 chips is 'proceeding according to plan,' scotching recent murmuring about a possible further delay to Microsoft's schedule for the system."

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I just had a "Aha" moment. by justkarl · 2004-09-21 05:01 · Score: -1, Troll

Why does everybody on Slashdot trash everything that Microsoft ever did like it's worse than slime, but celebrate the X-box because of Halo and some other mediocre games? It's totally antithetic.

Maybe it's just what I think, being a PS2 purist....
1. Re:I just had a "Aha" moment. by GreatDrok · 2004-09-21 07:10 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  celebrate the X-box because of Halo and some other mediocre games?
  You know, I agree. I played Halo right through and it was just so damn repetitive I almost went insane. Some features were nice but it really lacked imagination. It just felt like it was over long. Compare that with something like Call of duty on the PC which was a hell of a game but felt very very short. Thank goodness for the expansion pack.
  
  I just don't get why so many people rave about Halo like it alone justifies getting an Xbox. Of course, lets see how people feel about their Xboxes when the next version of GTA appears in a few weeks only for the PS2.
  
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  "I have the attention span of a strobe lit goldfish, please get to the point quickly!"
2. Re:I just had a "Aha" moment. by hibiki_r · 2004-09-21 08:35 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  It is true that 90% of current Halo fans still play it only for the multiplayer. However game magazines were also raving about the single player campaign. For example, this is what gamespot had to say about the game:
  
  Halo is a complete thrill ride from beginning to end, an experience perhaps best described as a 16-hour-plus version of the siege scene from the film Terminator 2.[...]The single-player experience in Halo is so strong that it's easy to regard the multiplayer side of the game as secondary, and to a large extent, it is.
  
  This doesn't seem to me like a comment regarding the multiplayer, does it?. I still don't know if the reviewer was receiving oral sex while he was playing or something: Some of the game's areas were so poorly designed that they are only marginally better than the first era in Daikatana. While not a terrible game as a whole, (as you said, the multiplayer game is better than the single player) the reviewers did seem to be pretty wrong with this one.
Re:Text of the article by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 05:28 · Score: -1, Troll

SiS motherboard chipset

That should put a spanner in the works of a well-supported X-Box 2 linux project.

Im also surprised that they are using such a shitty SiS mobo chipset in conjunction with the lovely G5's ...

each to their own I suppose.

my loyalty lies elsewhere anyway.
Re:Text of the article by Corngood · 2004-09-21 05:48 · Score: 0, Troll

And you know it's shitty how? It doesn't give any specifics on the chipset besides the manufacturer. It might not even be based on any existing sis product....