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State of the Xbox

Posted by Zonk on from the xbox-nationality? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Xbox head-honcho Robbie Bach has written up a State of the Xbox in which he gloats about the continuing success of the console but fails to say a word about its evolution." From the article: "You may have seen the October Game Developers Magazine, which announced its top 20 Publishers of the Year. Microsoft Game Studios was named the number two publisher, just behind EA, based on revenue as well as use of third-party developers, average critical response to titles, percentage of original intellectual properties (IPs), and developer opinion."

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  1. Rumours Abound by Damhna · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com/alex/2005/01/xbox_ ii.html

    So in my travels this weekend I came across a Microsoft employee and talked him up about Xbox II... here are the facts I found out.

    1) Hard Drive... Yes! There was some speculation that MS was going to take the HD out to make it more difficult to Mod.

    2) Flash based HD... Yes!!! It was told to me that the HD was going to be flash based... small size fast access... BAM!

    3) No Stupid Dongle DVD playback... Yes!!! The reason that the first Xbox didn't have built in DVD playback is a simple one, Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback. Nuf said...

    4) Xbox II at E3... Hell Yes!!! There will be an Xbox II maybe more at E3 this year...

    5) Xbox II release date announced at E3... another Hell Yes!!! MS will be announcing a release date for Xbox II...

    Now this is not like the "rumors" about IBM before these are hard cold facts from the horses mouth...