Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft Confirms Original Xbox Support

Posted by Zonk on from the not-fading-that-quickly dept.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that, despite rumours to the contrary, Microsoft is continuing support for their original console through the end of this year. From the article: "While we do not have other titles to announce at this time, we are committed to providing existing Xbox customers with exciting gaming experiences in 2006. There are 200 Xbox titles expected to ship this year. It is the responsibility of the first party to create genre-defining games for its platform and we are taking that stance with both Xbox and Xbox 360. We feel we have an amazing ecosystem with third parties providing content to Xbox at this time."

5 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Xbox1... by Drakin030 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Microsoft is supporting the console until they are able to fix the new one to work without threat of fire." By that time Xbox900 will be out.

  2. Re:end of the year? by Saige · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA.

    Nowhere is there any claim that they're ending Xbox support at the end of the year. NOWHERE.

    Welcome to Slashdot, where we make up crap about Microsoft, then attack them for it.

    --
    "You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
  3. "Amazing ecosystem"? by Hamster+Lover · · Score: 2, Funny

    We feel we have an amazing ecosystem with third parties providing content to Xbox at this time.

    Now PR types are digging into the lexicon of the biological world to find new wordspeak? I guess Microsoft and ecosystems do have a lot in common: both generate vast amounts of, um, ,fertilizer.

  4. Price by sidb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wish this meant that XBox 1 would become MS's value console (like PS1 did a few years ago), and it would get a price cut. But as far as I know, they still couldn't make a profit on it at US$99, partly due to the way they licensed the chips.

    I was hoping the price would fall, allowing me to complete the current-gen console trio, but I can't see any signs of that, and I'm a cheap bastard. I bought a PS2 last January when it slimmed down and hit $150, but I can't justify that price for an enormous machine that's quickly becoming obsolete.

  5. Re:end of the year? by aliens · · Score: 4, Funny

    Welcome to Slashdot, where we make up crap about Microsoft, then attack them for it.

    I'd make the "you must be new here" but your UID says you're already been here for quite some time. :)

    Plus making that joke would make baby Jesus cry.

    --
    -- taking over the world, we are.