Xbox 2 Announcement Expected at CES

BlueMoon writes "On January 5th at 6.30pm PST, the night before the opening of the CES 2005 event, Bill Gates will give a pre-show keynote speech in Las Vegas. A public announcement of Microsoft's next generation Xbox is widely expected."

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Backward Compatibility Problems

[Neuticle]

*whack!* Not to beat a dead horse *whack! smack!*

1) No hard drive. Sure a big flash card might be able to hold some of the info, but it would have to be a real big sucker, like 1 gig. That would add cost and complexity and with the frequency of writes to the drive, lifetime would be a big issue.

2) PPC vs. x86. Ok, so like you said, emulation might solve this problem, but we still don't know for sure.

3) Nvidia proprietary graphics tech. The Xbox relies heavily on this, and it's successor will use ATI. This complicates graphics emulation, to what degree I am not really qualified to say, but it can't be easy to tip-toe around all those patents without some cycle-intense translations.

4) No white or black buttons. Granted, they kind'a suck, but many games made important use of them. I suppose the controller ports could be the same allowing use of the old controller, but that means having your old controllers around to swap in and out... not ideal.

5) Something else that I can't remeber. Good old Deschutes Brewery and their winter ale... mmmm beer. Damn need to go back to the store.