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EA's Plans for Xbox 2

Posted by Zonk on from the not-a-lot-of-sense-here dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has news of EA's Xbox 2 plans for 2005, adding additional weight to the likelyhood of a new console by the end of the year. Oddly, the story states that the games in the works for the new console will also be developed for the current iteration of the Xbox. This may partially confirm the lack of backwards compatibility discussed previously on Slashdot and seems to pit Microsoft's new console against the old one for sales dollars.

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  1. Re:lack of backwards compatibility? by StingRay02 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. That's probably one of the dumbest statements I've read in the teasers. The real reason they're going to make new games for both Xbox and Xbox 2 is that, (here's a shocker) not everyone is going to buy an Xbox 2 at launch. Imagine that! The thing'll probably be $300-400 at launch, possibly more if they think they can get away with it, and I know I'm not going to buy it untill a couple of price drops happen.

  2. Re:While EA does carry alot of influence.... by jareth_chong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the console market, Microsoft needs EA more than EA needs Microsoft.