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Out Of The XBox
theodp writes 'Bill G.'s snagged the cover of this week's Time, which asks the question: Is Microsoft about to do in the living room with the Xbox 360 what it did in the office with Windows? Turn to page 13 in your Book of Xenon, please: 'As the world's software leader, Microsoft is among the best suited to enable and capitalize this transformation. This is our opportunity to lose.' If PlayStation 3 folks are scared, they're not showing it. 'We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5,' quips a Sony spokeswoman.' The story also reveals that the previously discussed rumor about Halo 3 parrying the PS3 launch is accurate.
Classic revisionist history - Sony released the PS2 a year before the Xbox. Don't trust your memory on this one. What you "seem to recall" is the opposite of what actually happened.
Fanboys.
As I explained to an earlier reply, I had the X-Box mixed up with the Dreamcast, which was the console which Sony was trashing to get people to wait for the PS/2.
So it happened, just with a different console than I remembered off the top of my head.
(P.S. Don't assume everybody you disagree with is a "fanboy." If you knew me, you wouldn't consider calling me a Microsoft fan of any stripe. If anything, I'm a Macintosh bigot.)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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