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Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft confirmed this morning that the Xbox 2 will be revealed on live TV on May 12. MTV will air a half-hour long special to launch the system. 'It doesn't make sense to unveil the product behind a closed door, at a trade-only event,' according to Microsoft corporate VP Peter Moore. 'We wanted to talk directly to the consumer first.'" More coverage available on GamesIndustry.biz and Press the Buttons.
3 to 1 it gets a BSOD while on live TV.
The PSP "Launch Party" was a flop. Why shouldn't this be also?
So they put it on a Pay-TV channel? Ok, maybe I'm the last person in the USA without cable. I'll just have to wait for the regular network commercials to tell me how cool this thing is that I don't really need, but will feel strangely compelled to buy anyway.
The Rationale: "We'll introduce it on MTV because it worked for Bill Clinton."
Things to look forward to:
- Blue Music Video of Death
- Some unknown girl/guy in the special will eventually rise to stardom for no apparent reason than they look good and/or can dance and sing
- Days^H^H^H^HHours after the first XBox 2 hits a store shelf before Linux is up and running on one
- First worm to hit XBoxes, which will be virtually impossible to remove due to the closed nature ot the system
Remember when MTV was only about Music Videos?A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Releasing the game console right before starwars?!
Anyone who is going for the XBox2 Rush will be inline to see Starwars at some theatre that is not going to show it.
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The article (yes, I RTFA) calls it the XBox Next. Is it confirmed, then, that the official name of the new XBox is XBox Next?
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Usually they build enormous hype by not showing it off to the consumer but rather showing it to select few reviewers, who then spill all sorts of happy, wonderful, everything is awesome, best thing since sliced bread reviews... everyone gets all hyped up, and by the time end consumers get to see the product for what it is, full of issues, the hype is so big that no one cares, and they sell millions...
Why switch the perfect marketing model?
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"We wanted to talk directly to the consumer first."
Make that, "We wanted to talk directly at the consumer first."
Sadly, you can't "talk to" anyone via TV (especially MTV-style networks). Let's just call this an (admittedly clever) uni-directional advertisement and be done with it.
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Will this be the highest tune in ever for a paid advertisement that is not taking place during the Super Bowl? I mean really, I don't think MTV is giving away air time to Microsoft...right?
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This makes perfect sense. Microsoft has started another viral marketing web game for the Xbox 2 (similar to the original ilovebees for Halo2). Check out http://www.ourcolony.net/ The countdown ends on May 12th at 8PM eastern. BTW, the password is play.
The rewards give out tiny glimpses of the Xbox 2. So far only the controller has been seen.
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I don't mind this airing on MTV so long as it does not impede or interfere in any way with the airing of MTV's coverage of Spring Break.
I've seen pornography that was less graphic than MTV in those shows.
I'm a big tall mofo.
Rumour has it that Bill Gates is going to suffer a wardrobe malfunction on the show and reveal to the world the true meaning of microsoft and why he is not trying to get perpendicular.
Nothing to see here
Wasn't the original xbox supposed to be aimed at a more mature market? Instead here microsoft is targeting the Britany Spears/reality tv fans. Not much of a surprise but I don't think Microsoft has a clue what they are doing. They are just praying their new system doesn't lose money when it debuts like xbox 1 did.
I don't think I need to add anything further...
The list just keeps getting longer of the things I have no interest in buying. I'm not really a console person in general, but I dispise XBox. I mean, that controller is just huge. I'm also the kind of n00b that moves the controller around, I've just never been able to kick the habit not since I was a kid playing on the Atari 2600. With the Xbox controller's heft, I might accidently kill somebody.
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you might be given some hard pressed questions from industry experts asking if the plastic case actually is the machine and if it actually works.
a show on mtv would be just one way, them pulling all the strings and saying whatever they want of the device - without the possibility for anyone to ask questions about it.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
By showing what amounts to an ad, they might lose their position of artistic integrity they've developed all these years.
In the past ten years since the ADHD league took over MTV programming, will this unveiling go as expected?
Bill Gates:
Welcome to the next level of home video game enter
ANNOYING POPUP!-HI THIS IS MEGAN FROM CRAPSMELL, NJ AND I LOVE JAY-Z, WOOOOO!
its processing power will make its extensive library of
RANDOM SNIPPET OF VIDEO!
the Xbox2 will retail for
HEY ITS CARSON DALEY, LOOK AT HIS HAIRLESS CHEST Aieeee!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Wait, am I thinking of a different channel? Please don't tell me the "M" is for "Microsoft."
The "M" is for "Marketing."
Marketing killed the video star.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I see a lot of "jokes" being tossed about in relation to MTV rarely being about music, Xbox debuting is an example of this etc. however need I not remind you that this is not unique to MTV, for example CBS rarely broadcasts about Colombia.
Dude, they have that already. They call it a "PC."
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MTV may no longer play music videos, but they get great ratings, and specifically within those great ratings is the hard to reach demographic that the XBOX should appeal to.
Congrats to Microsoft for being the first to figure this out. Keep an eye out for Sony to follow their lead if this works out well.
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This is exactly the reason I can't get myself to accept the Xbox. They are catering to, as Penny Arcade put it nicely, the Generic Frat Fuck. http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-11 -08&res=l
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I'll wait on buying it until Microsoft releases Xbox2SP1.
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I think you mean "spec" instead of "design". Chip design is not something that is within the realm of MS' ability. Sure they have bazillion dollars and can throw a lot of money at a problem, but designing chips takes talent and vast amounts of people that MS doesn't have and can't hire in time.
The last I heard, IBM was designing and manufacturing PowerPC chips for the Xbox2. In this way, the supplier - vendor relationship is no different than the Xbox. However, this time, the machine won't just be a modified PC with a modified Intel x86 processor. MS can be more specific about what the chip can do. In this way, IBM's relationship with MS is like Apple's relationship with IBM. Both companies tell IBM what they need the chip to do. IBM handles the details like where the memory and controller goes on the die, how the chip handles branching, etc.
Also ATI will make the graphics chips for the Xbox2. This was somewhat foreseable after the MS-nVidia relationship soured. But because ATI now supplies the GPU, there has been speculation that the Xbox2 will not be backwards compatible. nVidia's Xbox chips used proprietary technology that they probably don't want to license to MS and ATI.
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Who said that it wouldn't be shown at E3? It isn't DEBUTING at E3; E3 is May 17-19.
If we're taking bets, I'm going to guess ( for no good reason, without justification ) there's nothing like a Northbridge on this thing, so PPC Linux first.
Besides, you're not breaking a software EULA to get Linux working on your Xbox, doesn't that mean anything to you people ?
Damn, I need a sarcasm key for that last line.
And no, not a 'G5'. Something like it, but likely not actually a G5. A 64-bit PowerPC chip. Not a G5. Though the difference might be slight... it could be significant. The "Cell" for the PS3 is a PowerPC chip, too, but it's quite different from the PowerPC 970.
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