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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. reading the article by Fr05t · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but I stopped when he started bragging about the "awards" xbox games won at Spike TV's second annual Video Game Awards. The award show I saw I wouldn't brag about to anyone.

  2. Re:Rumours Abound by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hard Drive... Yes! ... Flash based HD... Yes!!!

    So instead of having some widely used removable flash memory format as a memory card or a large high speed (flash is slow compared to HDDs), high capacity cache space, they're going to build some flash memory in - essentially a soldered on memory card - and that's better? What next, are they going to put a little lithium button battery on the board and only allow three saves per console? Sounds like we're moving backwards here.

    Whey the hell hasn't any of these companies used CF or SD or, hell, MemoryStick as a memory card format and stopped this silly crap?